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Also known as Tapsus

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.

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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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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.

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