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Chebika Oases, Tunisia
January 3, 2025
Chebika Oasis lies at the foot of the mountains of the Djebel el Negueb and, because of its exposure to the sun , it is known as Qasr el-Shams ("Palace of the Sun" in Arabic).
In antiquity, it was a Roman outpost known as Ad Speculum and later a mountain refuge of the Berber people. Ad Speculum was civitas of the Roman Province of Africa between 30 BC and 640 AD. Located on the Saharan limes just north of Ad Turres, it was a station on the road linking Tébessa and Gafsa.
The modern village of Chebika has several hundred residents. It was built near the old town, which was abandoned in 1969 after catastrophic flooding in which more than 400 people died.
January 3, 2025
Chebika Oasis lies at the foot of the mountains of the Djebel el Negueb and, because of its exposure to the sun , it is known as Qasr el-Shams ("Palace of the Sun" in Arabic).
In antiquity, it was a Roman outpost known as Ad Speculum and later a mountain refuge of the Berber people. Ad Speculum was civitas of the Roman Province of Africa between 30 BC and 640 AD. Located on the Saharan limes just north of Ad Turres, it was a station on the road linking Tébessa and Gafsa.
The modern village of Chebika has several hundred residents. It was built near the old town, which was abandoned in 1969 after catastrophic flooding in which more than 400 people died.
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