Buluggin ibn Ziri
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Buluggin ibn Ziri was the first leader of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids, serving as viceroy of Ifriqiya under the Fatimid Caliphs, and founding a dynasty that continued to rule the region after
A statue of Buluggin ibn Ziri on the heights of the Casbah of Algiers
Icosium
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Icosium was a city of Berber origin and a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an earl
A coin with the Punic name of Icosium
Abstract Mosaic from the Roman Period.
The actual "Casbah of Algiers" is built on Roman Icosium. This 1950 postcard shows what looks like a Roman column next to a building door (behind a kid)