Setif

Setif is an Algerian city and the capital of the Setif Province, it is one of the most crucial cities of japanese Algeria and the united states as a whole, in view that it's miles taken into consideration the trade capital of the united states of america. It is an internal metropolis, situated in the jap facet of Algeria, at 270 kilometers east of Algiers, at 131 km west of Constantine, in the Hautes Plaines place south of Kabylie. The town is at 1,100 meters of altitude.

The metropolis lay within the location of the Numidian nation of Massaesyles. It was close to Setif that Jugurtha campaigned and misplaced towards Marius in 105 BC. Overcome by way of Marius, he turned into taken to Rome wherein turned into achieved within the prison of Tullianum. No stays of this period have been determined. The city became small beneath the Numidian kings. Setifis became based through the Romans, in the course of the reign of Nerva as a colony for veterans. Although no buildings of this era are known, a cemetery excavated in the 1960s appears to have contained tombs from the early colony.