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Bu Njem
Bu Njem, ancient Gholaia, is the site of a Roman fort in the Libyan desert south-east of Tripoli, built in 201 CE by a detachment of the Third Augustan Legion under Septimius Severus to control routes to the Fezzan and the Garamantes. Excavations have revealed the fort, baths and a large archive of ostraca, written potsherds recording daily military life, before its abandonment around 263.
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