Abstract
The author re-examines the issue of the limits of the Byzantine reoccupation, specifically to the South of the Aures and the Nemencha, in the light of the new research in the fields of philology (Procopius’s lists in the De Aedificiis), archaeology and history. Despite the negative position originally taken by Diehl and maintained today by Pierre Morizot, it is possible now to identify most of the places fortified by Solomon in the Aures area – the majority of them traditional garrisons on the limes – and to prove with epigraphic and/or archaeological evidence that the Byzantines built a whole range of fortresses up to the Hodna. The Vandals maintained their authority in the area up to the reign of Gunthamund and it was therefore necessary for geo-strategic reasons to reoccupy it.
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