| has gloss | eng: Iulia Constantia Zilil (located in Dchar Jdid, 40 km southwest of Tanger, and 13 km northeast of Asilah) was one of the three colonias in Mauretania Tingitana (in northern Morocco) founded by emperor Augustus between 33 and 25 B.C. for veterans of the battle of Actium. The city had then already been a Phoenician and Mauretanian city since the 4th century B.C.. It was an important station on the Antonine Itinerary. It was located at approximately 40 km south-west of Tangier, 13 km in the north-east of Asilah, close to the present village of Dshar Jdid. In the second half of 2nd century A.D., the city was surrounded by an enclosure. It comprised residential districts, a big temple and a theater, outside of the city a thermal unit (built in 80 A.D.) and a cistern with four compartments, supplied with a partly underground aqueduct (built in 130 A.D.). |