Icosium (Punic: ʾy ksm, "Island of the Owls"; Ancient Greek: Ἰκόσιον, Ikósion) was a city of Berber origin and a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric (now a Latin titular see) in the casbah area of modern Algiers.
Icosium (Punic: ʾy ksm, "Island of the Owls"; Ancient Greek: Ἰκόσιον, Ikósion) was a city of Berber origin and a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric (now a Latin titular see) in the casbah area of modern Algiers.
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