page_title: Althiburos
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Althiburos / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Place publique&#160;: le forum d'Althiburos est une place dallée rectangulaire, orientée du Nord au Sud sur la diagonale, ayant 23 m du Nord-Ouest au Sud-Est et 30 m du Nord-Est au Sud-Ouest. Sur ses quatre faces, il est entouré par un péristyle surélevé d’une marche large. Les dalles, bien taillées et soigneusement assemblées, sont conservées pour la plupart. Quelques unes, sous la galerie sud-est, portent des inscriptions sommairement gravées, dont le sens nous échappe parfois. This is a photo of the protected monument identified by the ID 33-4 in Tunisia.
context_page_description: Althiburos was an ancient Berber, Carthaginian, and Roman settlement in what is now the Dahmani Delegation of the Kef Governorate of Tunisia. During the reign of emperor Hadrian, it became a municipality with Italian rights. It was the seat of a Christian bishop from the 4th to 7th centuries. The settlement was destroyed during the Muslim invasions and the area's population center moved to Ebba Ksour on the plain. This left Althiburos's ruins largely intact; they were rediscovered by travelers in the 18th century.
context_section_description: Althiburos was an ancient Numidian city at the confluence of two local rivers when it passed into Punic influence and then control. It formed part of the road linking Carthage to Theveste.
  After the Punic Wars ended in Roman victory, Althiburos formed part of Africa. It retained a local Punic-style dual magistracy under sufetes well into the early empire, although at one point the city conceived a regional innovation and installed three executives at once. In the 2nd century, under the emperor Hadrian, it was granted municipal status and Italian rights under the name Municipium Aelium Hadrianum Augustum Althiburitanum. from Emperor Hadrian (117-138). It was prosperous in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
  It was the seat of a Christian bishop from the 4th to 7th centuries. The settlement was destroyed during the Muslim invasions and the area's population center moved to Ebba Ksour (Dahmani) on the plain. This left Althiburos's ruins largely intact; they were rediscovered by travelers in the 18th century.
caption: Forum of Althiburos.
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