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Skikda is a town in northeastern Algeria and a port at the Mediterranean's Gulf of Stora. It is the capital of Skikda Province and Skikda District. Further information: Maghreb placename etymology The Phoenicians and Carthaginians set up a trading submit and castle named rskd after Skikda's close by cape. The city's call was hellenized as Rhousikada. Falling under Roman hegemony after the Punic Wars, the call was latinized as Rusicade or Rusiccade.
Rusicade contained the largest Roman theatre in Algeria, dating to the reign of Hadrian. In past due antiquity, the port become destroyed during the Vandals' invasion of 530. The Byzantines reconquered the region in 533 and 534, but left huge areas underneath Berber manipulate. The city changed into overrun by using the Umayyad Caliphate on the stop of the 7th century. Present-day Skikda become based with the aid of Sylvain Charles Valée in 1838 below the call Philippeville, honoring the French king at the time. The French had been in the technique of annexing Algeria and evolved Philippeville as a port for Constantine, Algeria's 1/3-biggest metropolis. The cities had been related by way of rail. On 10 October 1883, there was an earthquake in Philippeville.
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