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ID: 7001307
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001307
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tbessa (inhabited place)  Tbessa (inhabited place)

Note: Outpost of Carthage 7th cen. BC; strategic Roman garrison town 146 BC; declined 5th & 6th cen.; vanished from history after 7th cen. Arab invasion, until 18th cen. when French ruled Algeria & developed the town as easternmost gateway of Algeria to the S.

Names:
Tbessa (preferred,C,V)
Tebessa (C,V)
Tébessa (C,V)
Theveste (H,V)
Thevestis (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tébessa (province)  ............  Tébessa (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tbessa (inhabited place)  ................  Tbessa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Cartaginian outpost 7th cen. BC; modern town developed 1840
town (C)
department capital (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tbessa..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 918
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 600
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1192
Tébessa..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 918
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 600
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Tebessa..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Theveste..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 918
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 600
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1192
Thevestis..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
....................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8525
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 913-914
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 918
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 600
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8525
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 913-914
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1192
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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