Zucchabar
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Zucchabar (present day Miliana in Algeria) was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It was constituted as a Roman colony (colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar) under Augustus. In late antiquity it was an episcopal see and has been a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church since 1967.
In the movie Gladiator by Ridley Scott, Zucchabar is falsely introduced as the name of a Roman province, when Maximus is brought south of his homeland Hispania into an arid and desertic land, after having been enslaved by merchants. It is also in this province that he meets Proximo.
