Thuburbo minus

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Thuburbo Minus is an ancient Roman city in the North African province of Africa Proconsularis . The place is now called Tebourba , has around 2,500 inhabitants and is located in Tunisia on the left bank of the Medjerda (Latin Bagradas ), west of Tunis .

Thuburbo minus is mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana , a map of the Roman road network. Due to its hilltop position, today's city only covers part of the Roman buildings. It was rebuilt by the Andalusian Moors in the 15th century . The Roman amphitheater , which has survived the ages, was only destroyed for a bridge to be built at the end of the 17th century.

In Thuburbo minus the famous Christian martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas and their fellow prisoners were held in custody in the arena of Carthage (202 or 203) before their death . The city was a bishopric in ancient times, two bishops are known:

  • Victor, a participant in the Council of Carthage in 411, where he was a competitor of the Donatist Maximinus and
  • Germanus, the (646) the letter of the bishops of proconsulship to the Patriarch Paul of Constantinople Opel against the Monothelitism signed

The titular bishopric of Thuburbo Minus of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to the extinct bishopric of the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.