Castellum Dimmidi
Castellum Dimmidi was a Roman castrum located in the south of the Mauretania CaesariensisHistory
As the Castellum implies, the settlement was a fortress near the Fossatum Africae, the southern border of the province of Numidia. It was a prosperous village and hosted a Roman garrison from roughly 198 to 240 AD.
It was located about south of Algiers, at the border of the Sahara desert. During the second century of the Roman period it was created under emperor Septimius Severus. It is unclear if the second part of the name, Dimmidi, was a native name transliterated into Latin, or a new name given by the Romans.
Probably -according to Philippe Leveau- the village survived the removal of the legionaries' castrum for another century and half, until the end of the fourth century.
Only in 1856 the French Reboud found some remnants, that were fully studied only in 1939-1941 by Gilbert-Charles Picard.
