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The Fossa regia, also called the ''Fosse Scipio'', was the first part of the Limes Africanus to be built in Roman Africa. ==History== Initially, the ''Fossa regia'' was used to divide the Berber kingdom of Numidia from the territory of Carthage that has been conquered by the Romans in the second century before the creation of their Roman Empire. The Fossa was an irregular ditch "from Thabraca on the northern coast to Thaenae on the south-eastern coast"〔Rives, J. B. (1995). (''Religion and authority in Roman Carthage: from Augustus to Constantine'', p. 18. Clarendon Press. ) At Google Books. Retrieved 25 October 2013.〕 dug by the Romans after their final conquest of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC. The construction's primary purpose was administrative, not military. It delineated the limits of the newly created Roman province of Africa marking the border between the Roman Republic and its then ally Numidia.〔("Tunis – The Fossa Regia", p. 121 ) ''American Journal of Archaeology''. At Google Books. Retrieved 25 October 2013.〕 After 46 BC, the western part of the ''Fossa regia'' served as the boundary between the Province of ''Nova Africa'', to its west, and the province of ''Africa Vetus'' to its east. Even after these two provinces were merged into Proconsular Africa in 27 BC, the ditch continued to be maintained as late as the year 74 AD under the emperor, Vespasian. East of ''Fossa regia'' there was full Latinization of the local society after Trajan. Indeed under Theodosius the area east of the ''fossa regia''〔(Camps: "Fossa Regia" (in French) )〕 was fully Romanized with one third of the population made of Italian colonists and their descendants, according to historian Theodore Mommsen. The other two thirds were Romanized Berbers, all Christians and nearly all Latin speaking. Furthermore in the same century in the area between ''Fossa regia'' and the Fossatum Africae of the Roman limes, where was expanded -further west of the ''Fossa regia'' - the process of Romanization after Augustus, the Roman colonists and descendants were nearly 20% of the population. They were concentrated around Cirta with surrounding confederated cities and around Thamugadi in the Aures region, while the remaining 80% was made of Berbers of whom only 25% were not fully assimilated and still spoke their autochthonous Berber language. Nearly all of them practised Christianity (and a few even Judaism). 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「Fossa regia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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