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Different civilizations, whose first goes back to the 4th geological era, followed Cirta, today Constantine: punique, numide,
Roman, Byzantine, vandal and, finally, Muslim (fatimide, hammadite, almohade, hafside, Turkish).
These civilizations let the traces and numerous, notably megalithic vestiges (in Ouled Rahmoune and in Sidi Messid with the
caves of bear and the mouflon), numides (mausoleum of Massinissa, steles coming from the sanctuary of visible El-Hofra in the
Cirta museum), Roman (arcades) and Muslim (mosque Sidi Lakhdar, palace of the Turkish governor Ahmed bey).
The bridges of Constantine constitute testimonies of several times.
Constantine played important roles of which the one of the Numidie, that spread from Gafsa (Capsa-Tunisia) in the Muluccha
(Moulaya-Morocco).
Several historians and men of culture certify his intellectual and spiritual radiation that it saw to be born or that it accommodated
such Kounfouds lbn, El-Khatib lbn, Hamza lbn, Lefkoun lbn, Réda Houhous, Malek Haddads, and the Jewish singers.
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