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ID: 5003658
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5003658
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Althiburus (deserted settlement)  Althiburus (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 008 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Sra Ouartene plateau; was documented as pre-Roman center; came under Carthaginian influence; was indigenous civitas under Roman Empire; made a municipium by Hadrian; was supplanted by Ebba Ksour and abandoned; important ruins have been preserved.

Names:
Althiburus (preferred,C,V)
Ebba Ksour (C,V)
Al Madīnah (C,V)
Medeina (H,V)
Althiburos (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tūnis (nation)  ........  Tūnis (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kef (governorate)  ............  Kef (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Althiburus (deserted settlement)  ................  Althiburus (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  was a pre-Roman settlement
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Al Madīnah..........  [VP]
.......................  USBGN: Tunisia (1964) 20
Althiburos..........  [VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 10507
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 44-45
Althiburus..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 44-45
.......................  USBGN: Tunisia (1964) 20
Ebba Ksour..........  [VP]
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 44-45
Medeina..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 10507
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 44-45
..................  USBGN: Tunisia (1964) 20
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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