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Aqueduct of Zaghouan-Carthage
One of the longest aqueducts ever built anywhere in the Roman Empire marched across the arid plains of Tunisia, bringing life-giving water to the refounded city of Carthage. Some of the Aqueduct of Zaghouan-Carthage‘s 132 km (82 mile) course has succumbed to the ravages of time, leaving only a line of pillars reminiscent of those at Stonehenge.The Carthage of Hannibal lost a hard-fought, bitter war to the Roman Republic early in the second century BC that ended with the city being completely destroyed. It wasn’t long, however, before Rome realized the advantages of re-establishing Carthage as a Roman city and upon doing so, its population swelled to an estimated 500,000. Building the Aqueduct of Zaghouan-Carthage was essential to provide the colonists with water for domestic and agricultural use.Roman Aqueducts
Roman Aqueducts List
- Aqua Alexandrina
- Aqua Alsietina
- Aqua Anio Novus
- Aqua Anio Vetus
- Aqua Appia
- Aqua Augusta Naples
- Aqua Augusta Rome
- Aqua Augusta
- Aqua Claudia
- Aqua Crabra
- Aqua Fontis Aureae
- Aqua Julia
- Aqua Marcia
- Aqua Nova Domitiana Augusta
- Aqua Tepula
- Aqua Traiana
- Aqua Virgo
- Aqueduct Arcier
- Aqueduct Argentorate
- Aqueduct Brevenne
- Aqueduct Bridge of Ansignan
- Aqueduct Clausonnes
- Aqueduct Contray
- Aqueduct from Gorze to Metz
- Aqueduct from Mons to Frejus
- Aqueduct in Briord
- Aqueduct in Caesarea
- Aqueduct in Carhaix Plouger
- Aqueduct Mainz
- Aqueduct of Ena Cortada
- Aqueduct of Hadrian
- Aqueduct of Los Banales
- Aqueduct of Lutetia
- Aqueduct of Luynes
- Aqueduct of Msaylha
- Aqueduct of Nahr Ibrahim
- Aqueduct of Nero
- Aqueduct of Pena Cortada
- Aqueduct of Philippopolis
- Aqueduct of Reims
- Aqueduct of Saintes
- Aqueduct of Segovia
- Aqueduct of the Gier
- Aqueduct of Tyre
- Aqueduct of Valdepuentes
- Aqueduct of Vieu
- Aqueduct of Yzeron
- Aqueduct of Zaghouan-Carthage
- Aqueduct of Zubaida
- Aqueducte de les Ferreres
- Aqueducts in Rome
- Aqueducts of Lyon
- Aqueducts of Poitiers
- Aqueduto de Sao Sebastiao
- Pont du Gard
