Hippo Regius
ancient name for the modern city of Annaba, Algeria
Facts
11 properties- Instance of
- archaeological site, Roman city[5]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 36.883°, 7.750°, 🗺️ 36.884°, 7.755°[6]
- Capital of
- Vandal Kingdom[11]
- Culture
- Phoenicians[13]
- Described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, Pauly–Wissowa[9][10]
- Product or material produced
- coin
- Significant event
- Siege of Hippo Regius[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hippo Regius
en Mint of Hippo Regius
ar هيبون
el Βασιλικός Ιππών
es Hippo
es Hipona
es Hipona Regio
es Hippo Regius
fa هیپو رگیوس
fr Hippone
fr Hippo Regius
he היפו רגיוס
hi हिप्पो रेगियुस
it Hippo Regius
it Bona
it Hippo
it Hippone
it Ippona
ja ヒッポレギウス
ja ヒッポレジアス
🔖 Identifiers · 29
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85060981
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hippo Regius, Africa Proconsularis, Algeria - 52575435338.jpg ↗
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- hippo-regius
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID
- 07360b
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
- 21626
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Hippo
- FactGrid item ID
- Amadio da Milano
- Freebase ID
- /m/0ll85
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -472047
- GeoNames ID
- 2493847
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- hipona
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2361952
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- Grove Art Online ID
- T038221
- Interlingual Index ID
- i82659
- Lex ID
- Hippo_Regius
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007560445305171
- Nomisma ID
- hippo_regius
- Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
- 3114
- Oxford Reference overview ID
- 20110803095938115
- Pleiades ID
- 305090
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ID
- hippo-regius
- SNARC ID
- Wolfgang Pietzsch
- Topic's main category
- Category:Hippo Regius
- ToposText place ID
- 369077UHip
- Treccani ID
- ippona
- TripAdvisor ID
- 4462751
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 3344
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08724959-n
- Yale LUX ID
- place/a4891109-6c81-4cd3-a1f9-4721f664adb8
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Algiers
2026-09-26
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- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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People who died here 3
Described by source 2
Instance of 2
Located in this place 2
Capital of 1
Culture 1
Named after 1
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Summary
Hippo Regius is an archaeological site[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include Algeria[2], a sovereign state[14], in Algeria[15], founded in 1962[16] and Numidia[3], a Roman province[17], in Ancient Rome[18].
Cultural Significance
Things named for Hippo Regius include 426 Hippo[19], an asteroid[20].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include 426 Hippo[19], an asteroid[20].