Sidi El Hani
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Sidi El Hani
(سيدي الهاني) Vicus Augusti | |
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Commune and town | |
| Country |  UTC+1 (CET) |
| Postal code | 4025 |
Sidi El Hani (or Sidi Al-Hani) (سيدي الهاني) is a town and
Tunisian Railways, with a secondary connection by road, the P12 road which is a principal road to Kairouan from the A1 a few kilometres to the east.[1] it is 19 km from Kairouan[2] and 26 km from Raqqada
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History
During the
amphitheater are still seen.[5][6] The town was known as Quartz August[7] (Street of Augustus) or vicus Augustii (the Village of Augustus) and was active from 30 BC to AD 640.[8]
In
See also
References
- ^ (in French) Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville, Compendium of Ancient Geography, Volume 2 (R. Faulder, 1791) p834.
- ^ Vicus Augusti at Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Hitchner, R. ,Places: 315259 (Vicus Augusti?).
- ^ Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study(OUP Oxford, 2006) p290.
- ^ VICUS AUGUSTI, Sidi el-Hani (Africa Proconsularis).
- ^ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 33 F1.
- ^ Quartz August Tunisia (Africa) .
- ^ Apostolische Nachfolge – Titularsitze.
- ^ entry at gcatholic.org.
- ^ entry at catholic-hierarchy.org
35°40′N 10°19′E / 35.667°N 10.317°E
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