Kasserine

In classical antiquity Kasserine was a Roman colony, known as Cillium [1]. Under Roman Emperor Vespasian (69–79) or Titus (79-81), it was elevated to the rank of municipium, and under the Severan dynasty (193-235) to that of colonia [1]. Archaeological evidence remains on site: mausoleums, triumphal arches, thermae, a theatre and a Christian basilica [1]. One noted monument is the Tomb of the Flavii, built for local landowner Titus Flavius Secundus in the late second century AD [1]. Cillium was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan of the Metropolitan of Hadrumetum [1]. Cillium was represented at the Conference of Carthage (411) between Catholic and Donatist bishops by the Catholic Tertiolus and the Donatist Donatus [1].