Severan Basilica

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• Maciej _K

  05 February 2018

  One of the best preserved ancient city at the Mediterranean Sea.
  Leptis - originally a Berber settelment, dated on the 7th century BC, expanded later on by Phoenicians traders. In the 5th century the Greeks unsucessfully attempted to colonize Tripolitania (Oea, Sabratha and Leptis). After the Third Punic War it became a part of the Roman Republic. The city was greatly developed in the 2nd century AD, during the reigning of Septimus Severus. The term Magna was added by the Romans to distinguish it from another Leptis in Tunisia. Its gradual declining began after the earthquake in year 365, and in the 10th century the city ceasted to exist. It was recovered in the 1930's by Italians.
  In year 1987 Leptis Magna was terribly flooded, but restored quickly with the assist of the UNESCO.
  One day is not enough to admire art of our predecesors.

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