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CIRTA (mod. Constantine, q.v.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 392 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIRTA (mod.
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Constantine, q.v.)
  , an ancient city of
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Numidia, in Africa, in the country of the Massyli . It was regarded by the Romans as the strongest position in Numidia, and was made by them the converging point of all their
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great military roads in that country . By the early emperors it was allowed to fall into decay, but was afterwards restored by
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Constantine, from whom it took its
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modern name .

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