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| Asilah, Dshar Jdid or the antique Zilil |
| Antique Sites of Morocco |
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| The site of Dshar Jdid is located 13 km to the North-East of the city of Asilah and to the east of the village of Had el Gharbia. |
Between 33 and 25 B.C, the Emperor August installed there one of the three Roman colonies of Western Mauritania, Iulia Constantia Zilil.
The archaeological excavations enabled to release from the residential districts, a big temple, a thermal unit, an imposing cistern with four compartments, supplied with a partly underground aqueduct, will be built to supply it with water, subsequently to Hadrian.
The most spectacular creation is the Paleochristian church, with three naves, equipped |
with a baptistery and various appendices, close to the western door of the enclosure, unique monument of this category released in Mauritania Tingitane.
The city was destroyed in the beginning of the Vth century. However the final ending of the human occupation of the site is not known yet. |
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