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Fossatum Africae
The Fossatum Africae was a system of ditches, earth banks and walls built by the Romans along the southern edge of their North African provinces, in modern Algeria and Tunisia, mainly in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. Running for hundreds of kilometres in separate sections, it was less a defensive barrier than a means of controlling and taxing the seasonal movements of nomadic herders.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Fossatum Africae. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fossatum-africae
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Fossatum Africae’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/fossatum-africae (Accessed: ).
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