Zuccabar was constituted as a Roman colony (Colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar) under the Emperor
Augustus.
Indeed, actual
Miliana corresponds[1][2] to the town of
Punic origin known in
Roman times as "Zucchabar" (or even "Succhabar"). Under
Augustus, it was given the rank of colonia and was thus referred to as Colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar.[3] The
Greek form of the name used by the geographer
Ptolemy was Ζουχάββαρι (Zuchabbari).[4]Pliny the Elder calls it "the colony of Augusta, also called Succabar",[5] and
Ammianus Marcellinus gives it the name Sugabarri or (in adjectival form) Sugabarritanum.[6][7][8]
^Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013,
ISBN978-88-209-9070-1), p. 1013
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