http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/syria_0039-7946_1966_num_43_1_8491_t1_0135_0000_2 French article on Thamusida] According to historian Stefano Camporeale, the auxiliary unit that built the Roman camp in Thamusida was probably the Cohors secunda Syrorum civium Romanorum in the second half of the first century (ceramic evidence confirms this chronology): this camp (with annexed "vicus") was one of the largest camps of the whole province of Mauretania Tingitana and measured about 2 hectares .