Iulia Valentia Banasa

Colonia Iulia Valentia Banasa
	Roman ruins of Banasa: great occidental thermae
	Shown within Morocco
Location	Sidi Ali Boujenoun, Kénitra Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
Coordinates	34°36′06″N 06°06′56″W / 34.60167°N 6.11556°W
Type	Settlement
History
Builder	Augustus
Founded	Between 33 and 25 BC
Abandoned	Approximately 285 AD

Iulia Valentia Banasa was a Roman-Berber city in northern Morocco. It was one of the three colonias in Mauretania Tingitana^[1] founded by emperor Augustus between 33 and 25 BC for veterans of the battle of Actium, on top of a Mauretanian village. The site was in fact already occupied by the local Amazigh people from the 4th century BC, or perhaps earlier.^[2]

^ Dictionnaire de l'Antiquité. 2005
^ "BANASA (Sidi Ali bou Djenoun) Morocco". Retrieved August 20, 2021.

[1] Dictionnaire de l'Antiquité. 2005

[perseus-2] "BANASA (Sidi Ali bou Djenoun) Morocco". Retrieved August 20, 2021.

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