Tipasa
Ancient city · Algeria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 600 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 36.594, 2.442
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a colonia in the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria.
History
Tipasa, sometimes distinguished as Tipasa in Mauretania, was a colonia in the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, nowadays called Tipaza, and located in coastal central Algeria. Since 1982, it has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It was declared a World Heritage Site in danger in 2002, but was removed from the danger list in 2006 following conservation efforts.