Miliana
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Miliana (Arabic: مليانا) is a town in Ain Defla Province, northwestern Algeria. Miliana was founded in the 10th century by Buluggin ibn Ziri on the site of an ancient Roman city, Zucchabar. It fell under French control in 1842. It is approximately 160 km southwest of the Algerian capital, Algiers[1]. The population was estimated at 40,000 in 2005.[2]
[edit] Zucchabar
Zucchabar (located at , near present day Miliana) 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 desert land, after having been enslaved by merchants. It is also in this province that he meets Proximo.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-382254/Miliana Encyclopedia Britannica
- ^ http://lexicorient.com/e.o/miliana.htm Encyclopaedia of the Orient
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