See Also: Thugga(encyclopedia)
Dougga-Thugga(tourism)

Thugga (sh)




modern Dougga

Ancient city, North Africa.

It was an important Punic city when the Romans assimilated it งใ AD 200. It is the best-preserved Roman site in Tunisia; its ruins include an arch in honour of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, a forum, baths, villas, an aqueduct, a theatre, and a temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. There is also a pre-Roman ruin of a 2nd-century-BC mausoleum.