Thapsus

settlement · 330 BC – 640 AD

An ancient settlement and port, located at modern Ras Dimass in the Tunisian municipality of Bekalta (Monastir). Habitation at the site dates to at least the 6th century BCE and continued through the Byzantine and into the Islamic period, but it appears that the main settlement itself relocated to Bekalta in medieval times.

Coordinates

35.62137, 11.04271

Also known as

Ruines de Thapsus

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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