Zana The site is located on the territory of the municipality Zanat El Beida in the wilaya of Batna, Algeria, halfway between Djasser Ain and the city of Batna. These are the ruins of the city of Diana Veteranorum in Numidia. An important inscription was found there and published in 1956, it is the curriculum Valerius Maximianus, General Marcus Aurelius. Are now two triumphal arches and the remains of a temple and the forum. This site is abandoned today. On the spot, nothing protects the ruins or slabs scattered on the ground. History of the ancient city of DIANA Diana Veteranorum is located in the province of Numidia, 40 kilometers northwest of Lambèse legionary camp garrison of the third legion Auguste, 85 kilometers southwest of Cirta, the great city of Numidia and forty kilometers east of Zaraï customs station that controlled the passage with the Caesarian Mauretania. As one might guess from its Latin name (Diana Veteranorum) the Roman settlement was originally a village where veterans are settled, possibly as early as the Flavian period, likely in conjunction with an indigenous institution. Initially mere vicus, the agglomeration became large enough quickly and was able to receive the status of municipality in the reign of Trajan probably in any case before the reign of Antoninus Pius. The city enjoyed a fairly large area: the milestones indicates that extended at least 26 km west of the city, 15 km south-west, 16 km to the north, 20 km north ouest1. Diana was on a road junction, which gave him a significant regional economic importance and probably explains its rapid development in the tight-binding framework with the military garrison Lambèse: 185 decurions to the city clubbed together to honor the legate of the legion Valerius Maximianus, who was also the owner of some of the notables of the ISCED2. As in other parts of Numidia area Veteranorum Diana was probably strongly affected by Donatism. It is indeed not far from Zana in a locality named Petra Nova, a certain Marculus died in suspicious circumstances on November 29 347. For his fellow Donatists, he was executed by the Catholics who would have thrown into the void. For the latter, he committed suicide ritually. The Donatist martyrdom Marculus had a long venerated by the Donatists and passion was mentioned in 411 in Carthage conference. It was also found in Ksar el-Kelb a memoria relics Marculus3. A Christian basilica is known Zana, located on the Forum4 site. In the Byzantine era, a fort was built near the forum. The fortifications re-used arc Macrin
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