Tebessa

Tébessa or Tebessa the classical Theveste, is the capital metropolis of Tébessa Province inside the Shawi area of Algeria, 20 km west of its Tunisian border. There is a phosphate mine close by and the city is thought for its conventional Algerian carpets. Tebessa changed into home to over a 190,000 human beings in 2007. In antiquity, Theveste fashioned part of the Roman empire. After the establishment of the Roman Empire, the 3rd Augustan Legion become primarily based in Theveste earlier than being transferred to Lambaesis.

Theveste later have become a Roman colony, likely underneath Trajan in the early second century. At the time of Trajan, it turned into a flourishing town with round 30,000 inhabitants. The ruins surviving in gift-day Tebessa are very rich in ancient monuments, amongst them being a triumphal arch of Caracalla, a Roman temple, and a Christian basilica of the 4th century. There is mention of a council held there with the aid of the Donatists. Among its saints were its bishop Lucius, who assisted on the 256 Council of Carthage and died as a martyr two years later; Maximilianus, martyred 12 March 295; and Crispina, martyred 5 December 304.