Tenes

Tenes is a metropolis in Algeria positioned round 200 kilometers west of the capital Algiers. As of 2000, it has a populace of 35,000 humans. Tenes become based as a Phoenician port in or before the 8th century BC. As with other Phoenician colonies, it fell below the hegemony of Carthage across the 6th century BC and of the Romans after the Punic Wars. Its Punic call turned into latinized as Cartenna or Cartennae, a plural which counseled the existence of a separate Berber agreement close by.

Ptolemy mentions that the local tribes have been called the Bakoyta. The town rose to colony reputation beneath the empire. It become sacked through the Vandals in the course of their conquest of Roman North Africa. Reconquered by the Byzantines after which taken through the Umayyad Caliphate, it disappeared except for a broadly speaking ruined fortification. At the present time Ténès is a small traveler metropolis with five small hotels, hospitals, a local museum, a port and a lighthouse. It has a few vintage web sites along with the Phoenician and Roman tombs, the prehistoric caves in Sidi Merouane.