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The rebuilding of the city of Carthage from the ashes began under Julius Caesar from 49 to 44 BC and continued under Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). After Utica lost its privileged status in 54-46 BC, [4] it became the capital of the new province of Africa Proconsularis from 27 BC and was home to a Roman praetor or proconsul.
Ancient Roman buildings and structures in Tunisia (1 C, 16 P) D. Dougga (1 C, 6 P) R. Roman towns and cities in Tunisia (203 P)
After Carthage's loss to Rome in the Punic Wars, Utica was an important Roman colony for seven centuries. Utica no longer exists, and its remains are located in Bizerte Governorate in Tunisia – not on the coast where it once lay, but further inland because of deforestation and agriculture upriver as the Medjerda River silted over its original ...
Plan of Roman Carthage Map of Roman remains within the modern Carthage municipality. Roman Carthage was an important city in ancient Rome , located in modern-day Tunisia . Approximately 100 years after the destruction of Punic Carthage in 146 BC, a new city of the same name ( Latin Carthāgō ) was built on the same land by the Romans in the ...
Carthage [a] was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman ...
Uthina was a town in the province of Africa Proconsularis, now northern Tunisia. [1] Uthina became a Roman colony of veterans of Legio XIII Gemina during the reign of Emperor Augustus. [2] Hence, it was mentioned by Ptolemy (IV, 3, 34), Pliny the Elder, [3] and the Tabula Peutingeriana. [4]
Forget Europe; from the ruins of Carthage to the El Jem amphitheatre, Tunisia’s restoration efforts show off its storied past. Richard Collett takes a deep dive into the country’s fascinating ...
Dougga or Thugga or TBGG was a Berber, Punic and Roman settlement near present-day Téboursouk in northern Tunisia.The current archaeological site covers 65 hectares (160 acres). [1]