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Madauros (M'Daourouch (مداوروش))

Madauros was a Roman-Berber city in Numidia, in present-day Algeria, renowned in antiquity as an important intellectual and educational centre of Roman North Africa.

 
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Cuicul (Djemila)

Roman colonial city of Numidia, later known as Djémila, renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved late antique urban remains.

 
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Bodobrica (Boppard)

Vicus Baudobriga was a Roman settlement on the left bank of the Rhine, founded during the conquest of Gaul. Its development reflects the Rhine’s shifting role as frontier, trade route, and fortified border before Roman withdrawal.

 
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Istros (Istria)

Under Roman rule from the 1st century CE, Histria was incorporated into the province of Moesia. The city is noted on the Tabula Peutingeriana, which places it 11 miles from Tomis and 9 miles from Ad Stoma.

 
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Ulpia Oescus (Gigen)

Oescus, Palatiolon or Palatiolum was an important ancient city on the Danube river in Roman Moesia.

 
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Ectabana (Hamadan)

Ecbatana was an ancient city, which was first the capital of Media in western Iran, and later was an important city in Persian, Seleucid, and Parthian empires.

 
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Castrum Zerzevan (Diyarbakır's Çınar)

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey.

 
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Mogontiacum (Mainz)

The Roman castrum Mogontiacum, the forerunner of Mainz, was founded by the Roman general Drusus around 10 BC. It was an important military town throughout the Roman period. The town of Mogontiacum grew up between the fort and the Rhine.

 
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Mediolanum (Milan)

Mediolanum, the ancient city where Milan now stands, was originally an Insubrian city, but afterwards became an important Roman city in northern Italy.

 
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Iluro (Cabrera de Mar)

Ituro, now Cabrera de Mar, was an important trading town and the capital of the Laietani, an Iberian people, until Roman times.

 
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Icosium (Algiers)

Icosium was a Berber city that was part of Numidia which became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of actual Algiers.

 
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Hermopolis (El Ashmunein)

Hermopolis, the city of Hermes, was an important city located between Lower and Upper Egypt. A provincial capital since the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Hermopolis developed into a major city of Roman Egypt.

 
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Emerita Augusta (Mérida)

Emerita Augusta was founded in 25 BC by order of the Emperor Augustus to protect a pass and a bridge over the Guadiana River. The city became the capital of the province of Lusitania and one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire.

 
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Arelate (Arles)

The Romans took Arelate from the Ligurians in 123 BC and made it an important city by building a canal towards the Mediterranean. Present-day Arles has preserved many Roman buildings.

 
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Lusitania

Lusitania preserves one of the most important bodies of Mithraic evidence in Roman Hispania, centred above all on Augusta Emerita and its urban religious landscape.

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Alcimus

Slave and vilicus in the household of Tiberius Claudius Livianus, linked to the earliest known Mithraic tauroctony.

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Marcus Valerius Maximianus

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

 
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Mithréum des Bolards

The Mithraeum des Bolards was integrated into a therapeutic cultural complex related to healing waters.

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Lucius Caecilius Optatus

Tribune of the First Cohort of Vardulli, he erected a mithraeum at Bremenium together with his consacranei.

 
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Germania superior

Along the upper Rhine frontier, Germania superior became one of the principal centres of Mithraic activity in northwestern Europe.

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