Ruspe

Ruspe or Ruspae was a town in the Roman province of Byzacena. It served as the episcopal see of Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, and is now a Latin Catholic titular bishopric.

The name "Ruspe" is treated as a Greek feminine singular word equivalent to Latin "Ruspa" by Henricus de Noris, and is the form used in a list of dioceses that the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria saw as dependent on itself at the beginning of the 8th century.

The name is taken to be really "Ruspae" (Latin feminine plural) by Alexander MacBean; William Smith; Morcelli; Mesnage; and the Annuario Pontificio.

The Tabula Peutingeriana gives as coastal towns in the Byzacena province Ruspina and Ruspe, the latter being to the south of the former.Ptolemy's Geography mentions the same two towns in the same order (Stevenson's admittedly defective English translation of Ptolemy gives instead Ruspina and Rheuspena).

According to the Tabula Peutingeriana, Ruspe was situated between Acholla and Usilla, near the promontory that Ptolemy called Brachodes, the Caput Vadorum of the Romans, later Capaudia, Qaboudia in Arabic (cf. Chebba).

The name "Ruspe" is interpreted as including the Semitic element rus, meaning "head" or "headland". It is thus commonly identified with the ruins known as Henchir Sbia (or simply Sbia) in present-day Tunisia, four miles west of that cape. An alternative site is that of the ruins known as Ksour Siad.

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