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The Roman baths of Gafsa (French: Piscines Romaines) are well-preserved [1] remnants of the Limes Tripolitanus era of North African history, when Gafsa, Tunisia was called Capsa. [2] According to a history of water in the Roman world, "there are two open-air central pools" in part because it was a Trajanic colony. [ 3 ]
An oasis is an intensive human-mediated agroforestry system located in an arid or semi-arid climate, usually located in close proximity to an underground aquifer. [citation needed] The Oases of the Maghreb specifically have been described as “islands of lush greenery that flourish amidst the harsh and restrictive conditions of a desert ecosystem.” [1] Date palm oases in the southern part ...
The modern city of Gafsa was called Capsa when was part of Roman Africa and was an important city near the Fossatum Africae. The Roman city was conquered by the Vandals, but soon was independent: Capsa was the capital of a Romano-berber kingdom (called Kingdom of Capsus) in the sixth century until the Arab invasion. Roman mosaic over one of the ...
Hermanion of El Guettar, currently in the Bardo Natinonal Museum. In the 1950s, archaeologists found a crown of balls, 4,000 silex, mammal's teeth and bones of animals laid out near a dried up watering hole which is some 40,000 years old.
Gafsa: 2021 iii (cultural) Rammadiya d'El Magtaa near Gafsa is an archaeological site of the Capsian culture, dating from 10,000 to 7,000 years before present, when the area was an open savanna. People of the Capsian culture were hunter-gatherers that left stone figures, petroglyphs, and carved ostrich eggs (drawing of an example pictured). [29]
Gafsa (Arabic: قفصة qafṣah/gafṣah Gafsˤa ⓘ) is the capital of Gafsa Governorate in Tunisia. With a population of 120,739, Gafsa is the ninth-largest Tunisian city and is 335 km from the country's capital, Tunis .
In the same year it was estimated that Gafsa province to the north would have 341,600 inhabitants, 3.5% more than in 2007 and 5.5% more than in 2004. The estimate for the province of Kebili in the south, Which many authors do not include in the region, was then of 152 200 inhabitants, 3.9% more than in 2007 and 6.3% more than in 2004.
Borj Gourbata was an ancient Roman-Berber town in Qafşah, Tunisia. It is located at latitude 34°16'22.01", longitude 8°32'56" and 135 meters above sea level . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The town is in the Sahel region of Tunisia, but at the junction of the Oued ech Cheria and the Oued el Jemel Wadis , [ 3 ] making it an important oasis in the Sahara .