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An early 5th-century revision of the Tabula Peutingeriana, an illustrated itinerarium of the Roman Empire, had a symbol depicting Altinum as a town with two towers, [25] which represented it as an important and populous town. [24] [26] Altinum and other towns and villages in the region were destroyed in 452 by Attila the Hun. [27]
Thuburbo Minus is mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary, 44, and the Tabula Peutingeriana. Situated on a hill, modern Tebourba occupied only a part of the ancient site, when it was rebuilt in the 15th century by the Andalusian Moors.
Muziris, as shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana, with a "Templum Augusti" Muziris is a lost port city on the south-western coast of India which was a major center of trade in the ancient Tamil land between the Chera kingdom and the Roman Empire. [21] Its location is generally identified with modern-day Cranganore (central Kerala).
The city of Ravenna, Western Roman capital, on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a 13th-century medieval map possibly copied from a 4th- or 5th-century Roman original. By convention, the Western Roman Empire is deemed to have ended on 4 September 476, when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, but the historical record calls this determination into question.
Nevers first enters written history as Noviodunum, a town held by the Aedui at Roman contact. The quantities of medals and other Roman antiquities found on the site indicate the importance of the place, [3] and in 52 BCE, Julius Caesar made Noviodunum, which he describes as in a convenient position on the banks of the Loire, a depot (B. G. vii. 55).
The township is mentioned as Thuni in the Tabula Peutingeriana. [14] In the system of Roman roads for the Roman province of Africa, the town had the title of mutatio ("way station, resting place"). [14] The borough, increasingly Romanized, was also eventually Christianized and became the seat of a bishop. However, it remained modestly sized ...
1928 map of Gabès under the French. Aerial view of Gabès in May 1943, shortly after being bombed in World War II. 7th century: The Umayyad Caliphate conquest. Muhammed's companion Sidi Abu Lubaba Al'Ansari settles in Gabès. 1148: The Zirids sack Gabés; 1574: Gabès becomes part of the Eyalet of Tunis after the Ottoman conquest.