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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. See also:Constantine, q.v.) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Numidia, in See also:Africa, in the See also:country of the Massyli. It was regarded by the See also:Romans as the strongest position in Numidia, and was made by them the converging point of all their See also:great military roads in that country. By the See also:early emperors it was allowed to fall into decay, but was afterwards restored by Constantine, from whom it took its See also:modern name.

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