Aquae Calidae, Algeria

During the Roman Empire, Aquae Calidae was a Roman colony of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. The Roman city has been identified with ruins at Hammam Righa in the wilaya of Chlef, Algeria, North Africa.[1]

The Ruins are located at latitude36.379474n, longitude2.395618e near the railway town of Boumedfaa,[2] and is on the Oued Djer River.[3]

The Roman colony appears to have been founded by Augustus and flourished from 30BC to about AD640, passing through the Vandal and Roman Empires into late Antiquity.

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