Timgad
Timgad is a town as well as the ruins of a Roman city in Northeast Algeria. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Timgad lies on the northern slopes of the Aurès mountains and was created as a military colony by the Emperor Trajan in 100 AD.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hamza-sia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hamza-sia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: Roman ruins in Algeria
- Also known as: “Roman ruins of Timgad”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roman Theatre of Timgad and Capitol of Timgad.
Roman Theatre of Timgad
Archaeological site
Photo: habib kaki, CC BY 3.0.
Roman Theatre of Timgad is an archaeological site.
Capitol of Timgad
Archaeological site
Photo: DEBIEB mohamed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Capitol of Timgad is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Timgad.
Timgad
- Categories: commune of Algeria, archaeological site, Roman city, recreation area, and historic site
- Location: Timgad, Batna, Northeast Algeria, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.4836° or 35° 29′ 1″ northLongitude
6.467° or 6° 28′ 1″ eastElevation
1,025 metres (3,363 feet)Open location code
8F78FFM8+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 331768105OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
2476409Wikidata ID
Q459629
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In Other Languages
From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Timgad” goes by many names.
- Algerian Arabic: “تيمڨاد”
- Arabic: “الآثار الرومانية تيمقاد”
- Arabic: “تيمقاد”
- Armenian: “Տիմգադ”
- Asturian: “Timgad”
- Azerbaijani: “Timqad”
- Basque: “Timgad”
- Belarusian: “Тымгад”
- Bulgarian: “Тимгад”
- Burmese: “တင်မ်ဂတ်ဒ်”
- Catalan: “Timgad”
- Chinese: “提姆加德”
- Croatian: “Timgad”
- Danish: “Thamugadi”
- Danish: “Thamugas”
- Danish: “Timgad”
- Dutch: “Timgad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيمقاد”
- Esperanto: “Timgad”
- Finnish: “Thamugadi”
- Finnish: “Timgad”
- French: “Ruines Romaines de Timgad”
- French: “Thamugadi”
- French: “Timgad”
- Galician: “Thamugadi”
- Galician: “Timgad”
- Georgian: “ტიმგადი”
- German: “Römische Ruinen von Timgad”
- German: “Timgad”
- Greek: “Τιμγκάντ”
- Hausa: “Timgad”
- Hebrew: “תימגאד”
- Hungarian: “Tímgád”
- Indonesian: “Timgad”
- Irish: “Timgad”
- Italian: “Thamugadi”
- Italian: “Timgad”
- Japanese: “ティムガッド”
- Japanese: “ティムガット遺跡”
- Japanese: “ティムガッド遺跡”
- Kabyle: “Timgad”
- Korean: “팀가드”
- Latin: “Marciana Traiana Thamugadi”
- Latin: “Thamugadi”
- Lithuanian: “Timgad”
- Lithuanian: “Timgadas”
- Macedonian: “Тимгад”
- Maithili: “तिमगड”
- Malay: “Timgad”
- Malayalam: “Timgad”
- Malayalam: “ടിംഗാഡ്”
- Maltese: “Timgad”
- Nepali: “तिमगड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Timgad”
- Norwegian: “Timgad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Timgad”
- Persian: “تیمگاد”
- Polish: “Thamugadi”
- Polish: “Timgad”
- Polish: “Timkad”
- Portuguese: “Timgad”
- Portuguese: “Tingade”
- Russian: “Тамугас”
- Russian: “Тимгад”
- Serbian: “Timgad”
- Serbian: “Тимгад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Timgad”
- Slovenian: “Timgad”
- Spanish: “Thamugadi”
- Spanish: “Thamugas”
- Spanish: “Timgad”
- Spanish: “Yacimiento Arqueológico de Timgad”
- Swahili: “Timgad”
- Swedish: “Timgad”
- Tachawit: “Tamugadi”
- Turkish: “Timgad”
- Ukrainian: “Тімгад”
- Vietnamese: “Timgad”
- Western Armenian: “Թիմկատ (Քաղաք)”
- Western Armenian: “Թիմկատ”
- Zulu: “Timgad”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Timgad”. Photo: Hamza-sia, CC BY-SA 3.0.