Thapsus
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Thapsus, also known as Tampsus and as Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from Thapsus in Sicily, was a Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bekalta, Tunisia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Thapsus
- Ancient site.image
- Tunisia_Antica.jpg
- Ancient site.map_type
- Tunisia
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Tunisia
- Ancient site.region
- Monastir Governorate
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- Monastir Governorate
- Significant event
- Battle of Thapsus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Thapsus, also known as Tampsus and as Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from Thapsus in Sicily, was a Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bekalta, Tunisia.
==Geography== Thapsus was established on Ras ed-Dimas, an easily defended promontory on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast. It was near a salt lake. It was about from the island of Lampedusa and approximately southeast of Carthage.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thapsus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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