Historical place profile
Thysdrus
Thysdrus (modern El Djem, Tunisia) was a Punic and Roman city of North Africa. It flourished in the second century A.D. and built its massive amphitheater in the third century. After an abortive revolt in A.D. 238, the city was destroyed by soldiers loyal to Maximinus Thrax.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:324835
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:324835
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.296058, 10.707584
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Thysdrus (modern El Djem, Tunisia) was a Punic and Roman city of North Africa. It flourished in the second century A.D. and built its massive amphitheater in the third century. After an abortive revolt in A.D. 238, the city was destroyed by soldiers loyal to Maximinus Thrax.
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 G2 Thysdrus
Source and reuse
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