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City in Mauretania Caesariensis, 33 km east of Tlemcen by what is today Ouled Mimoun (Lamoricière), in a strategically important location (CIL VIII 9834 f.). Likely a Berber settlement originally [1. 545 f.], A. came under Punic influence. At the beginning of the 3rd cent. AD, A. was included in the defence system of the Mauretanian limes . The civitas A. was administered from a (prior) princepscivitatis (Libyan: gld or gldt?) and decemprimi [2. 208]. Furthermore, a rex sacrorum (Punic dr…