Historical place profile

Thugga/Tokai?

Thugga/Tokai? (Dougga) is an ancient site in Tunisia with a rich heritage that includes Numidian-Berber, Punic, ancient Roman, and Byzantine phases. The city's Roman phase is particularly well preserved and UNESCO listed the site as a World Heritage Site in 1997.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:315223
Catalogue ID
pleiades:315223
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
36.423239, 9.218689
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Thugga/Tokai? (Dougga) is an ancient site in Tunisia with a rich heritage that includes Numidian-Berber, Punic, ancient Roman, and Byzantine phases. The city's Roman phase is particularly well preserved and UNESCO listed the site as a World Heritage Site in 1997.

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 32 D4 Thugga/Tokai?

Source and reuse

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Research path

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