Tingi

settlement · 550 BC – 1923 AD

Tingi (modern Tangier) began as a Carthaginian colony of the early fifth century BCE. A commercial center, Tingi came under the Roman sphere in the first century BCE, initially as a free city but later as the site of a colony (Colonia Julia) under Claudius and the capital of Mauritania Tingitana.

Coordinates

35.78755, -5.81023

Also known as

Thymiaterion (grc), Tingis (la), Tingitani (la), Τίγγις (el), Ṭanca (ota), Ṭancaba (ota), ⵜⵉⵏⴳⵉ (ancient berber), 𐤕𐤍𐤂 (xpu)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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