Thagaste
Sign in to saveThagaste (or Tagaste) was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria, now called Souk Ahras. The town was the birthplace of Saint Augustine.
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- Ancient site.name
- Thagaste
- Ancient site.image
- File:Mileve Hippo Thagaste in Numidia (83193756).jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Thagaste on the map of Numidia, just south of Hippo Regius.
- Ancient site.map_type
- Algeria
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Algeria
- Ancient site.region
- Souk Ahras Province
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Thagaste (or Tagaste) was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria, now called Souk Ahras. The town was the birthplace of Saint Augustine.
==History== Thagaste was originally a small Numidian village, inhabited by a Berber tribe into which Augustine of Hippo was born in AD 354. His mother Saint Monica was a Christian and his father Patricius (with Roman roots) was at first a pagan who later adopted Christianity.