Historical place profile
Casae
Modern Henchir el Beguar/Begar, an archaeological site located in the Tunisian governorate of Kasserine. Inscriptions of the second century CE found here in the 19th century authorized the holding of regular markets at Casae and demonstrate that it was probably the principal settlement of the Saltus Beguensis, a Roman senatorial estate.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:705921778
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:705921778
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.432000, 8.907700
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Modern Henchir el Beguar/Begar, an archaeological site located in the Tunisian governorate of Kasserine. Inscriptions of the second century CE found here in the 19th century authorized the holding of regular markets at Casae and demonstrate that it was probably the principal settlement of the Saltus Beguensis, a Roman senatorial estate.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: BAtlas 33 C2 Casae
Source and reuse
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Research path
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