A Gasr (plural ''Gsur'') is a fortified building found predominantly in

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. There is much conjecture about their relation to

centenarium A centenarium is a type of Ancient Roman fortified farmhouse in the Limes Tripolitanus. It is called even in the plural ''centenaria'', because in the Limes Tripolitanus there were more than 2000 of these "fortifications", connected to create a def ...

built by invading

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forces.

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