Map of the Limes Tripolitanus.Remains of the Roman castrum of Golaia (currently Bu Njem) in the Limes Tripolitanus.[1]
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The Limes Tripolitanus was a frontier zone of defence of the Roman Empire, built in the south of what is now Tunisia and the northwest of Libya. It was primarily intended as a protection for the tripolitanian cities of Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Oea in Roman Libya.
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