Tocolsida
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File:Africa Roman map.svg{{Short description|Archaeological site and former Roman fort in Morocco}}
Tocolsida is a site in modern Morocco,Noé Villaverde Vega, Tingitana en la antigüedad tardía, siglos III-VII (Real Academia de la Historia, 2001) p168-169. with the remains of an ancient castra from the Roman Province of Mauretania Tingitana, Roman Empire.Louis Chatelain (historien), Tocolosida (Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928).{{Cite web|url=http://www.dicolatin.com/FR/LAK/0/TOCOLOSIDA/index.htm|title=DicoLatin - Correspondance pour TOCOLOSIDA}}Bulletin de la Société de géographie (Delagrave, 1873) p551-552.Alexander MacBean, A Dictionary of Ancient Geography (G. Robinson, 1773) p2.
The site is on the Wadi Rdem in the foot hills of the Atlas Mountains, south of Roman Volubilis.[http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/22241.html dare.ht.lu.se/places/22241]. In antiquity it was on the Limes AfricanusT. W. Potter, Le Limes De Tingitane. La Frontière Méridionale. By M. Euzennat. Études d'Antiquités Africaines. (Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1989). 339 pages, 327 cited in Libyan Studies Volume 22 1991, p. 107. at the end of the Roman Road.M. Euzennat, DARMC, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, '[https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275737 Tocolosida: a Pleiades place resource], Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2014 near the modern village of Tagourart Ain Karma just north of Meknes, and west of Fez.
File:Layout of Tocolosida.png of the Roman Castra of Tocolsida, southern Morocco. Reconstruction from original sourcesNoé Villaverde Vega, Tingitana en la antigüedad tardía, siglos III-VII (Real Academia de la Historia, 2001) p168-169.Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 December 2000) p312.]]
Tocolsida was one of the five fortressesRogerson, Barnaby (2010). Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat. (London: Cadogan Guides, 2010) p237. built to defend the city of Volubilis[http://www.trismegistos.org/place/15599 Tocolosida (Ej Jezira)]. and was active from 30BC – AD300. Though some archaeology suggest occupation till the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
The fort was mentioned on the Antonine Itinerary.Bernd Löhberg, Das "Itinerarium provinciarum Antonini Augusti": Kartenband (Frank & Timme GmbH, 2006) p66.Vetera Romanorum Itineraria sive Antonini Augusti Itinerarium cum notis, Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Hieroclis Synecdemus (1735). and Ptolemy's Geography.
The castra was founded under the emperor Antoninus Pius and housed squadrons of Gallic and Syrian cavalry.Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 December 2000) p312.
There was an aqueduct,{{Cite web|url=http://www.romaq.org/the-project/aqueducts/article/1296-tocolosida.html|title = TOCOLOSIDA - Aqueducts - Roman Aqueducts}} at Tocolosida.
Tocolosida was excavated by the French in the early 20th century.Baradez, Jean, "Deux missions de recherche sur le limes de Tingitane." Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1955) / Vol99 Num2 pp. 288–298
Tocolosida is also known as El-Jezira, Bled Takourart and Aïn Takourart.