Timgad - Algeria – UNESCO World Heritage Site
Issue Year: 1969
Along the northern slope of the Aures, Timgad was created ex nihilo in 100 A.D. as a military colony by the Emperor Trajan. With its square enclosure and orthogonal design based on the cardo and the decumanus, the two perpendicular routes running through the city, it is an excellent example of Roman town planning.
