Icosium
Ancient city · Algeria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.786, 3.065
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city near Algiers in Africa
History
Icosium was a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric in the casbah area of modern Algiers.