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Sigus

Sigus (Barrington) · Bordj ben Zekri (Miller)

Sigus belonged to the territory of Cirta, now Constantine, as one of its more important rural districts, and a milestone found here counts twenty-five miles from that city. Its position on several roads gave it weight. Inscriptions show it as a fort and yet also as a self-governing community of the Siguitani, with district magistrates and councillors; in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC it stood under Punic influence. Its bishops appear in 411 and 484. A village near the ruins in Algeria has taken up the old name again.

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