Téboursouk

Téboursouk
Commune and town
Country	Tunisia
Governorate	Béja Governorate
Population (2014)
• Total	22,115
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Téboursouk (Tunisian Arabic: تبرسق‎  Tābūrsūq) is a town and commune in the Béja Governorate, Tunisia. It is located at 36° 29′ 27″N, 9° 09′ 20″E.

In 2004 it had a total population of 10,987. and of 11,865 inhabitants in 2014.

The town is part of governorate of Béja, and it constitutes a municipality. Located at the foot of the Téboursouk Mountains in the Tunisian ridge, the city is built half-way up a hill at 400 meters above sea level. It overlooks olive groves in the valley of Wadi Khalled.

It is located on the territory of the Berber tribe of the Bejaoua, near the Drid tribe, at the northern end of the Haut-Tell. At 4.6 kilometers are the ruins of the Roman city of Dougga. Subscribit Victor

During the Roman Empire, Teboursouc was known as "Tubursico-Bure", and was in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The ruins of ancient Thubursicum Bure are a large Byzantine enclosure of pentagonal form, erected under the reign of Justin II (565-578), and whose northern front encompasses a Roman gate and cemetery. The Roman city was considered a municipium.

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