Dougga in Beja Governorate, Tunisia
Béja Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia.
It is in northern Tunisia and has a brief coastline relative to its size.
It covers an area of 3740km² and had a population of 303,032 as at the 2014 census.
The capital is Béja and it spans the moderately high Tell Atlas hills and part of the plain between the Tell Atlas and the Dorsal Atlas further south.
Ramble through the deserted, cobblestoned streets of Dougga, the best-preserved Roman town in North Africa and a World Heritage Site.
Perched on a rocky hilltop above fertile plains, this archeological site features not only an ancient Roman capitol with a large theater, but also the remains of earlier structures, including a Punic-Libyan mausoleum.
The small town prospered under Roman and Byzantine rules, during which its wealthy residents built 20 temples, misleading scholars to believe that this was a major religious site.
Notice the intricate floor mosaics and look for the remains of Roman baths, a circus, and two triumphal arches.
Dougga or Thugga was a Punic, Berber and Roman settlement near present-day Téboursouk in northern Tunisia.
The current archaeological site covers 65 hectares.
UNESCO qualified Dougga as a World Heritage Site in 1997, believing that it represents the best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.
The site, which lies in the middle of the countryside, has been protected from the encroachment of modern urbanization, in contrast, for example, to Carthage, which has been pillaged and rebuilt on numerous occasions.
Dougga's size, its well-preserved monuments and its rich Numidian-Berber, Punic, ancient Roman and Byzantine history make it exceptional.
Amongst the most famous monuments at the site are a Libyco-Punic Mausoleum, the capitol, the theater, and the temples of Saturn and of Juno Caelestis.
Dougga's history is best known from the time of the Roman conquest, even though numerous pre-Roman monuments, including a necropolis, a mausoleum, and several temples have been discovered during archaeological digs.
These monuments are an indication of the site's importance before the arrival of the Romans.
The city as it exists today consists essentially of remains from the Roman era dating for the most part to the 2nd and 3rd century.
The Roman builders had to take account both of the site's particularly craggy terrain and of earlier constructions, which led them to abandon the normal layout of Roman settlements, as is also particularly evident in places such as Timgad.
Recent archaeological digs have confirmed the continuity in the city's urban development.
The heart of the city has always been at the top of the hill, where the forum replaced the Numidian agora.
As Dougga developed, urban construction occupied the side of the hill, so that the city must have resembled a compact mass, according to Hédi Slim.
Early archaeological digs concentrated on public buildings, which meant that private buildings tended at first to be uncovered at the ends of the trenches dug for this purpose.
Later, trenches were cut with the purpose of exposing particularly characteristic private buildings.
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The best preserved ancient Roman town in Africa - The city of Dougga in Tunsia
Dougga (also called Thugga) are an extensive set of ruins of a Roman town. This site is set on a hilltop, overlooking surrounding valleys with olive plantations. The road to Dougga passes through beautiful rural and scenic landscape. Unlike Roman ruins in Carthage or even in European towns where one or two remaining monuments are isolated in the middle of a modern city, at Dougga, the entire town is preserved, even the Roman streets. Without the barriers and the flocks of tourists, one can take one's time to climb in and out of houses and tunnels, temples and the theatres.
As with other sites in Tunis, Dougga's history is not limited to only the Roman period. One finds an old Punic temple here with a cleansing bath and walls from the Phoenician period, which was later transformed and reused by the Romans, and thus has Roman pillars. There is also an obvious funerary monument, the Mausoleum of Ateban, dating to 2nd century BC, one of three examples of royal Numidian architecture. Its inscription is housed in the British Museum, and the Punic-Libyan bilingual inscription was used to translate Libyan script.
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Tabarka (Arabic: طبرقة About this sound ṭbarqa, Berber: Tbarga or Tabarka, Phoenician: Ṭabarqa, Latin: Thabraca, Θαύβρακα in Ancient Greek [1][2] also called Tbarga by locals) is a coastal town located in north-western Tunisia, at about 36°57′16″N 8°45′29″E, close to the border with Algeria. It has been famous for its coral fishing, the Coralis Festival of underwater photography[3] and the annual jazz festival.[4] Tabarka's history is a colorful mosaic of Berber, Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman and Islamic-Ottoman civilizations.
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The city is the capital of a delegation of 40,372 inhabitants. The city itself has an estimated population of 10,843 inhabitants (according to the census of 2004). It is located at an altitude of 800 meters on the slopes of the Djebel Bir (1014 m), one of the Kroumirie mountains. The city is located in one of the most humid areas of Tunisia and holds the record for the highest average rainfall at 1534 mm per year.
Its name describes the sulfurous hot springs in the area used by the Romans in antiquity. Ruins of Roman baths are also found in the area.
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Sbeitla is a small town in north-central Tunisia. The oldest traces of civilization in the zone are Punic megaliths. In 647 AD the Arabs won a famous victory here making Sbeitla the shortest-lived of all Tunisian's capitals. What remains of Roman Sufetula sits on a level plain, with beautiful scenic interest. It boast the best preserved complex of Forum temples in the country. It also has some fine Christian remains and the most unadulterated Roman city in Tunisia.
This video is part of a project Cultural heritage as an instrument for democracy by EUNIC in Tunisia, in co-operation with the European Union Delegation in Tunisia. The presentation video of Sbeitla was produced especially for this program, it is an introduction to the venture. The EUNIC Cluster in Tunisia plans to organise an Action Workshop between the 27th and 30th of June 2013, at Sbeitla (Kasserine Governorate).
The press conference was held on June 20th, 2013, with the introduction of this video:
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