Bou-Râs

Bou-Râs is a town in located in Tissemsilt, Algeria, North Africa, located at latitude 33.6667°, longitude 1.8333° and an elevation above sea level of 956 metres.[1] It is on the Oued Hassi Bou Râs river.[2]

During the Roman Empire the town was called[3] Arsennaria, a civitas of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis.[4]

References
  1. Sidi Bou Râs at geoview.info.org.
  2. Traveling Luck for Oued Hassi Bou Râs, Algeria (general), Algeria.
  3. T. W. Potter, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Musones: a Pleiades place resource' at Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012.
  4. David M. Cheney, Arsennaritanus at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.


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