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Chebba (La Chebba, Ash Shabbah, aš-Šābbah, Sheba) is a small city in the Mahdia Governorate of Tunisia in North Africa on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.[2]
History
The city of Chebba derives its name from the headland 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the east, which was classically known as Caput Vada (headland above the shoals).[3][4][5]
The Byzantine general Belisarius landed here in 533 and went on to inflict a devastating defeat on the Vandals.[6] The town of Chebba was founded by Justinian about 534 CE after the defeat of the Vandals,[3] and named Justinianopolis.[7]
The headland (Caput Vada) is now known as Ras Kaboudia
Notes
- ^ "Tunisia: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". Archived from the original on 2013-02-09. Retrieved 2011-03-09. World Gazetteer
- ISBN 1-85828-748-0
- ^ a b c Hannezo, G. (1905) "Chebba et Ras-Kapoudia: Notes Historique" Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Sousse 3(5): pp. 135–140; in French
- ^ The shoals (Latin vada) refer to the shallows between the headland and the Kerkennah Islands, see Hannezo (1905)
- ^ In a footnote Gibbons says The Caput Vada of Procopius (where Justinian afterwards founded a city - Da Ædific. l. vi. c.6) is the promontory of Ammon in Strabo, the Brachodes of Ptolemy, the Capaudia of the moderns, a long narrow slip that runs into the sea (Shaw's Travels, p. 111). Gibbons, Edward (1854) The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire John Murry, London, volume 5 page 105,
- OCLC 499411636
- OCLC 23427230; in French
- Wikidata Q124213003.
- ISBN 978-1-55861-588-5
External links
- "Chebba Map — Satellite Images of Chebba" Maplandia World Gazetteer
Media related to Chebba at Wikimedia Commons
