Chebba
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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.[1]
History
The city of Chebba derives its name from the headland Script error: No such module "convert". to the east, which was classically known as Caput Vada (headland above the shoals).[2][3][4]
The Byzantine general Belisarius landed here in 533 and went on to inflict a devastating defeat on the Vandals.[5] The town of Chebba was founded by Justinian about 534 CE after the defeat of the Vandals,[2] and named Justinianopolis.[6]
The headland (Caput Vada) is now known as Ras Kaboudia[2] and is site of the ruins of the bordj (harbor fortress) of Bordj Khadidja, which was built upon Byzantine foundations.[7] The fortress guarded the harbor entrance and was one of a chain of similar forts built by the Abbasids along the coast of North Africa in the 8th century. It was later renamed after Khadija Ben Kalthoum, a poet of the eleventh century, who was born in Chebba.[8]
Notes
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- ↑ Jacobs, Daniel and Morris, Peter (2001) The rough guide to Tunisia Rough Guides, London, page 235, Template:ISBN
- ↑ 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, Template:Catalog lookup link
- ↑ Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell) (1923) "Chapter XVII: The Reconquest of Africa" History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I. to the death of Justinian: Volume 2 Macmillan, New York, page 130, Template:Catalog lookup link
- ↑ Guérin, Victor (1862) Voyage archéologique dans la Régence de Tunis, Volume 1 Henri Plon, Paris, page 150, Template:Catalog lookup link; in French
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- ↑ Sadiqi, Fatima et al. (2009) Women writing Africa: The Northern region Feminist Press at The City University of New York, New York, page 89, Template:ISBN
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External links
- "Chebba Map — Satellite Images of Chebba" Maplandia World Gazetteer
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