Thapsus

Coordinates: 35°37′15″N 11°02′30″E / 35.62083°N 11.04167°E / 35.62083; 11.04167
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This article is about the North African city. For the medicinal herb, see Verbascum thapsus. For the prehistoric village in Sicily, see Thapsos.
Thapsus
Thapsus is located in Tunisia
Thapsus
Shown within Tunisia
LocationTunisia
RegionMonastir Governorate
Coordinates35°37′15″N 11°02′30″E / 35.62083°N 11.04167°E / 35.62083; 11.04167

Thapsus, also known as Tampsus and as Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from

Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bekalta, Tunisia
.

Geography

Thapsus was established on

Mediterranean coast. It was near a salt lake. It was about 135 km (84 mi) from the island of Lampedusa and approximately 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Carthage
.

History

Thapsus was founded by the

Phoenicians. It served as a waypoint on the trade routes between the Strait of Gibraltar and Phoenicia
and as a market for the inland products of the area. Diodorus Siculus write that Agathocles of Syracuse conquered the city.[2]

During

Thaenae, Leptis, and Gummi.[4]

Remains

Thapsus's surviving ruins include an

harbor moles, a huge concrete and stone breakwater extending almost a kilometer from shore; only the first hundred or so meters, however, remain above water.[3]

Religion

In

Hunneric of the Vandals summoned to his court in Carthage in 484 and then exiled.[5]

The Catholic Church reëstablished it in 1914 as a titular see.[6] It is a Latin title of the lowest rank, with one archiepiscopal exception.

  • Valentín García y Barros (1914.12.10 – 1916.08.26)
  • Arturo Celestino Alvarez (1919.12.18 – 1921.05.09)
  • Andrew James Louis Brennan (1923.02.23 – 1926.05.28)
  • Vincenzo Celli (1927.04.08 – 1951.10.17)
  • Antonio Torasso, I.M.C. (1952.01.10 – 1960.10.22)
  • Paul-Émile Charbonneau (1960.11.15 – 1963.05.21)
  • Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez (1963.06.25 – 1966.11.30)
  • Alfredo Cifuentes Gómez (1967.03.10 – 1970.12.02), as titular Archbishop
  • Ludwig Averkamp (1973.01.18 – 1985.11.07)
  • Vladas Michelevičius (1986.11.13 – 2008.11.12)
  • Pontifical Academy

References

Citations

  1. ^ Lipiński (2004), p. 363.
  2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library, §20.17.1
  3. ^ a b Davidson & al. (2014), p. 35.
  4. ^ Davidson & al. (2014), p. 38.
  5. ^ Sophrone Pétridès, "Thapsus" in Catholic Encyclopedia (New York 1912)
  6. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 983

Bibliography

External links
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