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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. Constantine, q.v.)

CIRTA (mod.
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CONSTANTINE
Constantine, q.v.) , an

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of

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NUMIDIA

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Africa, in the

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of the Massyli . It was regarded by the

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Romans as the strongest position in Numidia, and was made by them the converging point of all their

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GREAT

great military roads in that country . By the

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early emperors it was allowed to fall into decay, but was afterwards restored by

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CONSTANTINE

Constantine, from whom it took its

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MODERN

modern name .

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