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Abyla (called even Ad Septem Fratres or simply "Septem") was a Roman colony in Mauretania Tingitana.It was an ancient city that existed in what is now the downtown of Ceuta. ==Characteristics== Septem's location in the southern side of the Gibraltar Strait has made it an important commercial trade and military way-point for many cultures, beginning in the fifth century BC with the Carthaginians (who called for the first time the city with the name "Abyla"). It was not until the Romans took control of the region in 42 AD that the port city, then named "Septem Fratres", assumed an almost exclusively military purpose. The city become a Roman colonia with full rights for the citizens under emperor Claudius. Septem flourished economically in the Roman Empire and developed one of the main production places for fish salting commerce and industry. The city was connected with southern Roman Hispania not only for commerce, but even administratively. Efficient roman roads connected Septem with Tingis and Volubilis, facilitating trade but even military movements of legions. In the beginning of the first century, under Augustus, the citizens of Septem used mainly the Phoenician language. Soon started the process of Romanization of the inhabitants. Consequently, most of the Septem population spoke Latin in the fourth century, but there was a huge community of local romanised berbers who spoke their berber dialect mixed with some Phoenician loanwords. When the city fell to the Bizantines in the sixth century the Greek was added to the Latin as the official language. Septem was an important Christian center in Mauretania Tingitana since the fourth century (as recent discovered ruins of a Roman basilica show 〔(Roman basilica article, with related video )〕), and consequently it is the only place in the actual Maghreb where Roman heritage (represented by Christianity) has continuously been present and survived until our days. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abyla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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