Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Originally a 7th-centuryxc2xa0BC Phoenician foundation, it was greatly expanded under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (r.xc2xa0193xe2x80x93211), who was born in the city. | WIKI |
| The 3rd Augustan Legion was stationed here to defend the city against Berber incursions. | WIKI |
| After the legion's dissolution under Gordian III in 238, the city was increasingly open to raids in the later part of the 3rd century. | WIKI |
| Diocletian reinstated the city as provincial capital, and it grew again in prosperity until it fell to the Vandals in 439. | WIKI |
| [1][2][3] This has been tentatively connected to the Semitic root (present in Arabic) LFQ, meaning "to build" or "to piece together", presumably in reference to the construction of the city. | WIKI |
| The latinization of these names was Lepcis or Leptis Magna ("Greater Leptis"), which also appeared as the "Leptimagnese City" (Latin: Leptimagnensis Civitas). | WIKI |
| The Phoenician city was founded in the second half of the 7th centuryxc2xa0BC. | WIKI |
| The Roman Republic sent some colonists together with a small garrison in order to control the city. | WIKI |
| The city prospered and was even allowed to coin its own money in silver and bronze. | WIKI |
| [3] Soon Italian merchants settled in the city and started a profitable commerce with the Libyan interior. | WIKI |
| [8] The city depended primarily on the fertility of its surrounding farmland, where many olive-presses have been excavated. | WIKI |
| By 46xc2xa0BC, its olive oil production was of such an extent that the city was able to provide three million pounds of oil annually to Julius Caesar as tax. | WIKI |
| Leptis Magna remained as such until the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when the city and the surrounding area were formally incorporated into the empire as part of the province of Africa. | WIKI |
| The city grew rapidly under Roman administration. | WIKI |
| Septimius favored his hometown above all other provincial cities, and the buildings and wealth he lavished on it made Leptis Magna the third-most important city in Africa, rivaling Carthage and Alexandria. | WIKI |
| In ADxc2xa0205, he and the imperial family visited the city and bestowed great honors. | WIKI |
| During the Crisis of the 3rd Century, when trade declined precipitously, Leptis Magna's importance also fell into a decline, and by the middle of the 4th century, even before it was completely devastated by the 365 tsunami, large parts of the city had been abandoned. | WIKI |
| Ammianus Marcellinus recounts that the crisis was worsened by a corrupt Roman governor named Romanus, who demanded bribes to protect the city during a major tribal raid. | WIKI |
| The ruined city could not pay these and complained to the emperor Valentinian I. Romanus then bribed people at court and arranged for the Leptan envoys to be punished "for bringing false accusations". | WIKI |
| Unfortunately for the future of Leptis Magna, Gaiseric ordered the city's walls demolished so as to dissuade its people from rebelling against Vandal rule. | WIKI |
| The people of Leptis and the Vandals both paid a heavy price for this in ADxc2xa0523 when a group of Berber raiders sacked the city. | WIKI |
| In 544, under the prefecture of Sergius, the city came under intensified attack of Berber tribes, and after some successes, Sergius was reduced to retreating into the city, with the Leuathae tribal confederation camped outside the gate demanding payments. | WIKI |
| Sergius admitted eighty deputies into the city to present their demands, but when Sergius moved to leave the conference he was detained by the robe by one deputy and crowded by others. | WIKI |
| By the 6th century, the city was fully Christianized. | WIKI |
| [12] Numerous new churches were built in the 6th century,[13] but the city continued to decline, and by the time of the Arab conquest around 647 the city was mostly abandoned except for a Byzantine garrison force and a population of less than 1,000 inhabitants. | WIKI |
| In the early 1930s Italian archeological research was able to show again the buried remains of nearly all the city. | WIKI |