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Zaraï was a town in the Roman province of Numidia. Actually it is called Aïn Oulmene, in what is now Algeria. == History == Zarai is mentioned in the ''Itinerarium Antonini'', 35, and in the ''Tabula Peutingeriana''. Ptolemy 〔IV. 2.〕 calls it Zaratha, and wrongly places it in Mauretania Caesariensis. It is probably the Zaratha of Apuleius.〔Apologia, 23.〕 These two forms and the term "Zaraitani" found in an inscription〔Corp. Inscript. Lat. 4511.〕 seem to indicate that the name Zaraï which appears on another inscription〔Corp. Inscript. 2532.〕 must have lost a final letter. Zarai was protected -after emperor Hadrian started the construction of a wall similar to the one with his name in Roman Britannia- by one of the sections of the Fossatum Africae: the Hodna or Bou Taleb section. This section begins near the north-east slopes of the Hodna Mountains, heads south following the foothills then east towards Zaraï, then doubles back westward to enclose the eastern end of the Hodna mountains, standing between them and the Roman settlements of Cellas and Macri. The length of this segment is about 100 km. It probably criss-crossed the ancient border between Numidia and Mauretania Sitifensis. The Byzantines fortified the city as the western border town of their possessions in Africa. With the Arab conquest of Roman Africa the small city of Zarai disappeared. 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「Zaraï」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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