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- ↑ http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/22079.html
- ↑ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p271.
- ↑ Susan T. Stevens, Of martyrs and mosaics: two Early Christian churches at Sidi Jdidi (Aradi) and Henchir Chigarnia (Uppenna) Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 20.
- ↑ Amphitheatre, Henchir Chigarnia.
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