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Map of Borj Gourbata in
Tunisia . 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 . It is situated between Gafsa and
Chott el Jerid .[
citation needed ]
History
In
Roman times the
town
[4]
[5] was on the
Roman Limes in the
Roman Province of
Africa proconsularis and latter
Byzacena .
[6] The town was known as
Castellum Thigensium or just Thiges .
[7] As the name suggest it was a fortification,
[8] and was probably the first fort on the
limes being built in 75AD.
[9]
The town appears on the
Tabula Peutinger and was also the seat of a
Christian
bishopric , which survives today as a
titular see of the
Roman Catholic church .
[10] The current
Bishop is
Stanislaw Gębicki of
Poland .
[11]
[12]
In the
Middle Ages the town was known as Tgiws
[13]
The French excavated
ruins s in the 19th century
[14]
The town was taken in the
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in 647
AD ,
[15] though
Roman and
Berber populations remains the majority till the 9th century when there were revolts in the area.
References
^
Borj Gourbata at geoview.info.
^
Borj Gourbata at mapcarta.com.
^
Borj Gourbata Map — Satellite Images of Borj Gourbata .
^ Pol Trousset, Thiges and civitas Tigensium (Publications of the French School of Rome, 1990) vol 134 num1.
p143-167 .
^ J. S. Wacher, The Roman World, Volume 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2002)p237.
^ Trousset, (P.), Thiges and the Civitas Tigensium, Part of: Africa in the Roman West (1st century BC-4th century AD). Proceedings of the Rome Symposium (3-5 December 1987) (Collection of the French School of Rome 134) p143-167
^ R.B. Hitchner, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott,
Thiges/Castellum Thigensium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2014 [accessed: 24 December 2016].
^
About: *Thiges/Castellum Thigensium, Henchir-Ragoubet .
^
The Roman Fort of Qasr Banat in Libya - The Limes Tripolitanus .
^
"Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze" . Archived from
the original on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2016-12-24 .
^
Bishops capital titular Thiges at GCatholic.org.
^ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13.671
^
"تاريخ مدينة توزر -" . Archived from
the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2016-12-24 .
^ Trousset, P. (1995).
"Djerid" . Encyclopédie Berbère (16): 2461–2465.
doi :
10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.2189 .
^ Trousset, P. (1995).
"Djerid" . Encyclopédie Berbère (16): 2461–2465.
doi :
10.4000/encyclopedieberbere.2189 .