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🌊 Annaba: Hippo, the Bay, and Augustine

Read Annaba through its Mediterranean bay, Seybouse plain, ancient Hippo ruins, and the hilltop basilica that keeps Augustine’s memory visible.

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~10 min

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🗺️ Geography

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Adults

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What you’ll learn

Read Annaba from the waterlineUse Annaba’s bay, hills, river plain, and archaeological site to read how geography positions a city.The city’s coast and inland route explain why its modern and ancient settlements occupy this particular landscape.
Read the city through its layersDistinguish Hippo Regius, Augustine’s episcopate, and the later Basilica of Saint Augustine without collapsing them into one period.Annaba’s visible skyline holds an ancient city, a late Roman memory, and a nineteenth-century monument side by side.

Questions this course answers

Where does the Seybouse meet the sea in relation to Annaba?

The Seybouse flows into the Mediterranean just southeast of Annaba, linking the city’s coast to a broad inland drainage basin.

Who was bishop of Hippo from 396 until his death in 430?

Augustine served as bishop of Hippo from 396 until 430, when he died during the Vandal siege.

Which statement best distinguishes the Basilica of Saint Augustine from Hippo Regius?

The basilica was built between 1881 and 1900 on a hill overlooking the archaeological remains of ancient Hippo.

Grounded in trusted sources

Église Catholique d’Algérie, La basilique de Saint-Augustin à Annaba: https://eglise-catholique-algerie.org/eglise-algerie/diocese-constantine-hippone/basilique-saint-augustin-annaba/
Order of Saint Augustine, Basilica of Saint Augustine in Annaba: https://www.augustinianorder.org/where-we-are/general-houses
Larousse, Hippone (Hippo Regius): https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/ville/Hippone/123975
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Bône (Annaba) and the Seybouse: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/B%C3%B4ne
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