Oppidum Novum
Ὄππιδον Νέον
Oppidum Novum (Ὄππιδον Νέον, Ptol. 4.2.25), a town of Mauretania, colonised in the reign of the emperor Claudius, by the veterans (Plin. Nat. 5.1), which Ptolemy (l.c.) places 10‘ to the E. of Manliana, and the Antonine Itinerary 18 M. P. to the W.; Ptolemy's position agrees with the Sinaab of Shaw (Trav. p. 58), where that traveller found ruins on the W. bank of the Chinalaph. The town of the Itinerary corresponds with El Khádarah, the Chadra
of Edrisi (Geog. Nub. p. 81), situated on a rising ground, on the brink of the same river, where there are also ruins.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.