Icosium

Japanese: Icosium
Icosium

...It is located at the western end of the Bay of Algiers, and is connected to the plain to the southeast, but there is little flat land because the sea to the east and the 250m high hills called the Sahel to the west are close behind it, making Algiers a typical hilly town. The history of the town began when the Phoenicians built a trading post on a small island at the northern end, and in Roman times it was called Icosium. In the 10th century, the Amir of the Jirid dynasty built the town and named it Jazzair (plural of the Arabic word for "island"). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Icosium" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…アルジェ湾の西端にあり,南東は平野につながるが,東は海,西はサヘルと呼ばれる標高250mの丘陵が背後に迫っているため平地が乏しく,アルジェは典型的な坂の町である。 町の歴史は,北端にある小島を利用してフェニキア人が通商拠点を築いたことに始まり,ローマ時代にはイコシウムIcosiumと呼ばれた。10世紀になってジール朝のアミールが町を建設し,ジャザーイル(アラビア語の〈島〉の複数形)と命名した。…

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