El Djem
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El Djem or El Jem is a town in Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia. Its population was 21,544 at the 2014 census. It is home to Roman remains, including the Amphitheatre of El Jem.
Amphitheatre of El Jem
The amphitheatre in 1833
View of the first two amphitheatres
The Amphitheatre of El Jem
Thysdrus
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Thysdrus was a Carthaginian town and Roman colony near present-day El Djem, Tunisia. Under the Romans, it was the center of olive oil production in the provinces of Africa and Byzacena and was quite p
El Djem
…Governorate, Tunisia. Its population was 21,544 at the 2014 census. It is home to Roman remains, including the Amphitheatre of El Jem. The Roman city of Thysdrus was built, like almost all Roman settlements in ancient Tunisia, on former Punic settlements. In a less arid climate than today's, Thysdrus prospered…
Thysdrus's huge amphitheater
A coin of Thysdrus with the Punic name of the city, šṭpšr
Gordian I on a coin, bearing the title AFR, Africanus.