Althiburos

Althiburos was an ancient Berber, Carthaginian, and Roman settlement in what is now the Dahmani Delegation of the Kef Governorate of Tunisia [1]. During the reign of emperor Hadrian, it became a municipality with Italian rights [1]. It was the seat of a Christian bishop from the 4th to 7th centuries [1]. The ruins of Althiburos are located near Fej El Tamar on the Ouartane Plateau about 9 km southwest of the town of Medeina [1]. Althiburos was an ancient Numidian city at the confluence of two local rivers when it passed into Punic influence and then control [1].