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.
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- Ancient site.name
- Thapsus
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- Tunisia_Antica.jpg
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- Tunisia
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- 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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