Aspis/Clipea

settlement · 330 BC – 640 AD

Aspis/Clipea, located on the Cap Bon peninsula, was founded in the fifth century BC by the Carthaginians. Site of the Siege of Aspis (255 BC), the first land battle in Africa during the First Punic War.

Coordinates

36.83851, 11.11579

Also known as

Aspis, Clipea

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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