Tacfarinas Shrine or Ozia (Sour el-ghozlan) Thabuirt
In the Numidian era, the city bore the Amazigh name Ozia. Perhaps the most prominent remains of this era is the tomb of Commander Takfarinas, one of the Amazigh kings in the Kingdom of Numidia in North Africa, which historians have dated to the year 439 AD. There are inscriptions, drawings, and Roman letters on some of the stones that are still clear. This is what allowed for some Technical and architectural studies in order to classify the shrine, which is considered one of the most magnificent Roman remains in the city.
In 1945, the city became a military center for French colonialism, and the French named it Oumale, in reference to the Duke of Oumale, the son of the last king of France, Louis-Philippe I.
Tacfarinas was one of the most important heroes of the ancient Numidia resistance. He showed great courage in confronting the Roman occupier, and he taught him an unforgettable lesson in heroism and fierce resistance, which is still engraved in the memory of the history of the Roman Empire.
His popular resistance also delayed the occupation of Numidia by the Romans for more than a decade, and the enemy was not able to occupy some parts of North Africa until after Tacfarinas was killed on the Battlefield.
Tacfarinas, in Amazigh ⵜⴰⴽⴼⴰⵔⵉⵏⴰⵙ (in English: Tacfarinas), was one of the most important leaders of Numidia. He grew up in a noble family with great influence, and belonged to the Musulamii tribe. He was recruited as an assistant in the Roman army at the age of sixteen with the rank of assistant, and during his work he gained great military experience. But he fled the army after he saw the Roman injustice that was being practiced against the Nomads and felt their tyranny and absolute tyranny. He was appointed by his followers and lovers as the leader of the “Muzamala” tribes in the year 17 AD, and he formed from them a regular army of Numid infantry and cavalry according to the Roman method of organizing armies. He lost his uncle, brother, and son in the wars he fought against the Roman army in North Africa. His revolution lasted seven years, and then he was killed in the Sur el-Ghizlan area in Algeria. Tacfarinas learned a lot from the plans of the Roman army and its strategic methods in directing wars and battles. He also learned about its weapons and the material and human resources it possesses, and the weaknesses that characterize this army that can be exploited to direct fatal blows to it during intense confrontations and intense battles.
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