Historical place profile
Thapsus
An ancient settlement and port, located at modern Ras Dimass in the Tunisian municipality of Bekalta (Monastir). Habitation at the site dates to at least the 6th century BCE and continued through the Byzantine and into the Islamic period, but it appears that the main settlement itself relocated to Bekalta in medieval times.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:324827
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:324827
- Place type
- amphitheatre, archaeological-site, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.621369, 11.042709
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement and port, located at modern Ras Dimass in the Tunisian municipality of Bekalta (Monastir). Habitation at the site dates to at least the 6th century BCE and continued through the Byzantine and into the Islamic period, but it appears that the main settlement itself relocated to Bekalta in medieval times.
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 33 H1 Thapsus
Source and reuse
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Research path
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