Oued Beni Barbar is a wadi in Algeria. It is in the Nemencha area of the sahel, a semi-arid region north of the Sahara and is near Seiar and Bled Izaouene. Its headwater is in Djebel Metred and Djebel Moussa. Oued Beni Barbar at Geoview.info. The river has an average elevation of above sea level. The wadi is named for the Beni Barbar tribeLeo Africanus, Robert Brown, John Pory, The History and Description of Africa (Cambridge University Press, 3 Jun. 2010 ) p201. who invaded and settled the area in the Middle Ages. The Oued is a ravine, delimited by relatively strong banks, which in the rainy season becomes a stream.Beni Barbar.
During the Roman Empire, a statue of the Emperor Septimius Severus was erected at the wadi.Duncan Fishwick, (BRILL, 1991) Imperial cult in the Latin west ii-1, p542.
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