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Constantine - the city of Algiers, the city of suspension bridges





This city was founded about 2000 years ago on the plateau height of over 600 meters. He chose the place for the isolated, framed by vertiginous gorge, ideal for defensive purposes. Later, in the heyday, Constantine became known as the "city of bridges". Now it is the third largest city in Algeria.
Currently, four bridges Constantine lie through the canyon, which was formed due to the river Rummel. Still there is a viaduct on him deliver drinking water to homes located on the edge of a precipice.





The history of this city rich and ancient. Originally a Phoenician city was known as Seva - a royal city. Later, it became the capital of the newly formed Numidicus kingdom and called Cirta. Then, the Romans turned this area into a colony - Colonia Sittlanorum. More later, destroyed in the Civil War, the city rebuilt the Emperor Constantine. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Arabs conquered it from the Byzantines in the 7th century and named Constantine.
In the 12th century, in the Almohad era and Hafsids, the city regained prosperity, then it became part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1837 he was captured by the French in 1962, Algeria finally gained independence.























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