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Close ✕Leptis Magna
A Punic-founded North African city that became spectacularly Roman - and produced an emperor, Septimius Severus, who reportedly spoke Latin with an African accent.
32.6, 14.3 · approximate · Phoenician foundation c. 7th c. BCE; Roman municipium 1st c. CE, colonia 109 CE; Severan monumental phase early 3rd c. CE; largely abandoned by the 7th c. CE
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- evidences Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana) — A Punic-founded African city with a lavish Roman monumental centre, and the birthplace of an emperor, is the assimilation mechanism made visible in stone rather than argued from texts.
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