Thelepte, Tunisia
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ruins at Thelepte.
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 Thelepte
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| Coordinates: 35°13′47″N 9°7′46″E / 35.22972°N 9.12944°ECoordinates: 35°13′47″N 9°7′46″E / 35.22972°N 9.12944°E | |
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 Tunisia
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| Governorate | Kasserine Governorate |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 6,046 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC1) |
Thelepte (Berber: تلابت) was a city in the Roman province of Byzacena, now in western Tunisia. It is located 5 km from the modern town of Fériana, near the border with Algeria, at around 34°58′33″N 8°35′38″E / 34.97583°N 8.59389°E.
The Roman city held the rank of colonia. An important network of roads branched out from it, linking it with Cilium and Theveste to the north, and Gafsa and Gabès to the south. In the 6th century it became the residence of the military governor of Byzacena. Procopius (De Ædificiis, VI, 6) says that the city was fortified by Justinian.
We have the names of several bishops of Thelepte. Julianus was present at the Council of Carthage (256) that Cyprian called to consider the question of the lapsi; Donatianus, who assisted at the joing Council of Carthage (411) between Catholic and Donatist bishops and at a council in Carthage in 416 called by Saint Aurelius and at another in Milevum in the same year; he himself as senior bishop of the province held a council of the bishops of Byzacena in 418 either at Thelepte or at Zella (the manuscripts do not agree). Frumentius was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. Stephanus was present at an anti-Monothelitism Council of Byzacena in 641.
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