Hadrumetum
Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hadrumetum,[1] also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.
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Location | Tunisia |
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Region | Sousse Governorate |
Coordinates | 35.824444°N 10.638889°E / 35.824444; 10.638889 |
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A number of punic steles were found during excavations at the site of the modern day Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception de Sousse [fr].