History of Haidra

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Ammaedara is a Berber name , although the only evidence of pre-Roman occupation is the foundations of a Carthaginian temple to the god Baal Hammon overlooking Oued Haidra to the southeast of the site .

The first Roman settlement here was a base established by the troops of the Augus­tine Third Legion at the beginning of the 1st century AD during their campaign to suppress a rebellion by the Numidian chief Tacfinares . Only a cemetery near the Arch of Septimius Severus survives from this period . After Tacfinares was defeated , Ammaedara was repopulated with retired soldiers and became a prosperous trading town .