Historical place profile
Tubusuctu
An ancient settlement located in the modern Soummam river valley at a place called Tiklat, which is near modern El Kseur in Algeria's Kabylia province. Here the Roman emperor Augustus established a veteran colony. Bishops of Tubusuctu are attested in the fifth century CE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:305171
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:305171
- Place type
- archaeological-site, ruin, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.655811, 4.838547
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement located in the modern Soummam river valley at a place called Tiklat, which is near modern El Kseur in Algeria's Kabylia province. Here the Roman emperor Augustus established a veteran colony. Bishops of Tubusuctu are attested in the fifth century CE.
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 31 B3 Tubusuctu
Source and reuse
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Research path
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