Turris Tamalleni Explained

Turris Tamalleni was a town in North Africa,[1] dating from the Carthageinian, Roman, Byzantine and Vandal era.[2] [3]

Geography

The town was west of Tacapes and South of Capsa.[4] [5] [6] It is located on the oasis of Mansura, 1.5 kilometers from Telmine and 7.5 kilometers from Kebili.

History

Turris Tamalleni town was founded before Carthage, when the Nybgenii Tribe established a fortified granary and a fortified residence for the tribal head.[7] It was renamed in the 1st century C. Civitas Nybgenorium, and remained the center of the Nybgenii Tribe[8] and the name Turres being probably the indigenous name.[9] It was originally a fort on the Roman Limes,[10] and linked by Roman Road under Domitian.[11] Later it became a municipium under Hadrian(about 105AD) taking the name Turris Tamalleni.[12] It is mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary on the road on the borders of Tripoli and Leptis Magna.[13] During the latter Roman era it was a Bishop's seat and a center of resistance of the Almoravids. The city was taken and destroyed by the Almohads in 1205AD.[14] An Arab town called Torrah or telmin was built from the rubble of the Roman town and is identified as runs at ruins of Oum-Es-Samâa.Today, nothing remains of the ancient city. All that remains of the ancient town is two large irrigation basins separated by a wall, which were restored in 1780 by the Bey of Tunis, they form a lake of one hectare.[15]

Bishopric

The Bishopric founded in the fourth century ceased to function with the arrival of the Arab forces, but remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[16] The current titular bishop is Linus Lee Seong-hyo, auxiliary bishop of Suwon.

Bishops

Notes and References

  1. Guide Bleu. Tunisie, éd. Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 237
  2. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Libya/_Texts/MATCIS/Background*.html The Roman Background of Tripolitania
  3. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville, John Horsley, Compendium of Ancient Geography, Volume 2 (R. Faulder, 1791) p 829.
  4. James S. Reid, The Municipalities of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press,2014) p292.
  5. Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop, Frontiers in the Roman World: Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Durham, 16–19 April 2009) (BRILL, 2011) p107.
  6. http://imperium.ahlfeldt.se/places/21842.html Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
  7. Guide Bleu. Tunisie, éd. Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 237.
  8. David J. Mattingly, Tripolitania (Routledge,2003) p 67.
  9. David J. Mattingly, Tripolitania (Routledge,2003) p214.
  10. Louis Harmand, L’Occident romain, Gaule, Espagne, Bretagne, Afrique du Nord, éd. Payot, Paris, rééd. 1970, chapitre XI (Constitution des limes africains), p 269.
  11. David J. Mattingly, Tripolitania (Routledge,2003) p
  12. Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire, Princeton University Press, 2002, p 39.
  13. Louis Harmand, L’Occident romain, Gaule, Espagne, Bretagne, Afrique du Nord, éd. Payot, Paris, rééd. 1970, chapitre XI (Constitution des limes africains), pp287.
  14. https://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/siti_archeologici/turris_tamalleni.html&prev=search TURRIS TAMALLENI
  15. Guide Bleu. Tunisie, éd. Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 237.
  16. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3t59.html Turris Tamalleni

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