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Sufetula

1. (history) An ancient Roman and Byzantine town in the North African province Creta et Cyrenaica, near present-day Sbeitla, Tunisia.
   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 5, published 1866, page 238:

     The præfect himself was slain by the hand of Zobeir: his daughter, who sought revenge and death, was surrounded and made prisoner; and the fugitives involved in their disaster the town of Sufetula, to which they escaped from the sabres and lances of the Arabs.

   • 2007, Gareth Sears, Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and transformation in the city‎^[1], page 55:

     Its presence in the very centre of the town certainly emphasises the dominance of Christianity at Sufetula from at least the fourth century onwards.

   • 2010, Donna Wheeler; Paul Clammer; Emilie Filou, Tunisia, Lonely Planet, page 176:

     Out in the middle of nowhere on the plains 107km southwest of Kairouan and 38km east of Kasserine, Sbeitla is home to the evocative ancient town of Sufetula, famous for its remarkably preserved Roman temples.

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固有名詞

Sufetula f sg (genitive Sufetulae); first declension

1. A town in Africa, now Sbeitla

語形変化

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

参照

• “Sufetula”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly