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 | | Tipasa, a town (1987 pop., 7,066) on the Mediterranean coast of Algeria, west of Algiers, is the site of an ancient Phoenician trading post that was conquered by Rome and transformed into a strategic base for further expansion of the empire. |
 | | Carthaginian, Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine ruins are mingled together, along with indigenous structures such as the remarkable mausoleum known as the Kbor er Roumia, or Tomb of the Christian (although it is now known to be pre-Christian). |
 | | Also notable are the Early Christian necropolis and the foundations of three churches: the Great Basilica, the Basilica of Saint Salsa, and the Basilica of Alexander, among which fine mosaic decorations have been unearthed. |
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