During the second century it was the fortress of the Legio III Cyrenaica, which guarded this part of the eastern Roman frontier.

About A.D.225 it became a 'colonia,' and perhaps we should date from this the town-plan just described (fig.

34).
[113] Baedeker, _Palestine and Syria_ (1906), p.

162.
This rectangular planning remained long in use in the Eastern Empire.
When in A.D.705 (as it seems) the town of Chersonnesus in the Crimea was rebuilt after a total destruction, it was rebuilt on a symmetrical plan of oblong 'insulae' (25-30 by 60-70 yds.

area).