Sousse

Sousse or Soussa is a metropolis in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 population. Sousse is in the critical-east of the country, at the Gulf of Hammamet, that's part of the Mediterranean Sea. Its economy is based totally on delivery equipment, processed meals, olive oil, textiles, and tourism. It is domestic to the Universite de Sousse. In the 11th century, Tyrians hooked up Hadrumetum as a trading put up and waypoint alongside their exchange routes to Italy and the Strait of Gibraltar.

Its status quo preceded Carthage's but, like other western Phoenician colonies, it have become a part of the Carthaginian Empire following Nebuchadnezzar II's long siege of Tyre inside the 580s and 570s. The city featured within the Third Sicilian War, the Second and Third Punic Wars, and Caesar's Civil War, whilst it was the scene of Caesar's famously deft healing: upon tripping while coming ashore, he handled the terrible omen this threatened to turn out to be through grabbing handfuls of dust and proclaiming "I have you now, Africa" The 2nd city in Roman Africa after Carthage, it became the capital of the province of Byzacena at some point of the Diocletianic Reforms. Its local sons included the jurist Salvius Julianus, the emperor Clodius Albinus, and numerous Christian saints. The Roman and Byzantine catacombs below the city are significant.