Ruspina
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Ruspina was a Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman town located in Monastir, Tunisia, situated in Roman times in Africa propria, and mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy.
==Name== The Phoenician and Punic name () or () seems to mean "Angle Cape". It was used for the cape and hills at the south end of the Bay of Hammamet and for the main settlement near the cape. The Punic name was variously hellenized as Rhouspînon (), Rhouspino, (), Rhouspína (), or Rhoúspina () but consistently latinized as Ruspina.
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