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» This article is about the North African city. For the medicinal herb see Verbascum thapsus.Thapsus (less commonly,
Tapsus) was an ancient city in what is modern day
Tunisia. Its ruins exist at Ras Dimas near
Bekalta, approximately 200 km southeast of
Carthage. Originally founded by
Phoenicians, it served as a marketplace on the coast of the province
Byzacena in Africa Propria. Thapsus was established near a salt lake on a point of land eighty stadia (14.8 km) from the Island of
Lampadusa.
In
46 BC,
Julius Caesar defeated
Metellus Pius Scipio and the
Numidian King
Juba with a tremendous loss of men near Thapsus (see
Battle of Thapsus). Caesar exacted a payment of 50,000
sesterces from the vanquished. Their defeat marked the end of opposition to Caesar in Africa. Thapsus then became a Roman colony.
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