Hadrumetum
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Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Hadrumetum
- Ancient site.image
- GiorcesBardo42.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- A 3rd-century mosaic discovered at Hadrumetum depicting Vergil and his Aeneid between the muses Clio and Melpomene. (Bardo Museum)
- Ancient site.map_type
- Tunisia
- Ancient site.map_size
- 250
- Ancient site.location
- Tunisia
- Ancient site.region
- Sousse Governorate
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Names
- Geography
- History
- Phoenician colony
- Carthaginian city
- Roman city
- Later history
- Ruins
- Religion
- List of bishops
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.
A number of punic steles were found during excavations at the site of the modern day .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hadrumetum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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