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Definition of Timgad
1. Noun. An ancient town founded by the Romans; noted for extensive and well-preserved ruins.
Group relationships: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic And Popular Republic Of Algeria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timgad
Literary usage of Timgad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Motor Flight Through Algeria and Tunisia by Emma Augusta Burbank Ayer (1911)
"CHAPTER XV THE RUINS OP Timgad EARLY the next morning, the motorists departed
under a cold gray sky which turned the distant mountains an indigo blue, ..."
2. The Real Algeria by M. D. Stott (1914)
"Presumably you have already noticed one or two details about the construction of
Timgad which remind you horribly of a modern city, so it will give you no ..."
3. The Land of Veiled Women: Some Wanderings in Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco by John Foster Fraser (1911)
"... and frock coats—and possibly silk hats. What a contrast to the audiences for
which this theatre was built 1 But no Romans now. Timgad basks silently in ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1905)
"Timgad, which was founded in the time * " Travel in the First Century," by CAJ
... The end of Timgad had now arrived. Earthquakes, the sand and dust of the ..."
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