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'''Thysdrus''' was a [[ |
'''Thysdrus''' was a [[Carthaginian Empire|Carthaginian]] town and [[Roman colonies in North Africa|Roman colony]] near present-day [[El Djem]], [[Tunisia]]. Under the Romans, it was the center of [[olive oil]] production in the [[Roman provinces|provinces]] of [[Africa proconsularis|Africa]] and [[Byzacena]] and was quite prosperous. The [[Amphitheatre of El Jem|surviving amphitheater]] is a [[World Heritage Site]]. |
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==Name== |
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[[File:Monnaie - Bronze, Thysdrus - btv1b84834292 (2 of 2).jpg|thumb|200x200px|A coin of Thysdrus with the Punic name of the city, {{sc|šṭpšr}}]] |
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The [[Punic language|Punic]] name of the town was {{sc|šṭpšr}} ({{lang|xpu|𐤔𐤈𐤐𐤔𐤓}}).{{sfnp|Head & al.|1911}} The Latin name ''{{lang|la|Thysdrus}}'' has [[Berber languages|Berber]] roots.<ref name=etahlyun/> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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[[File:Fossaregiafossatumafricaemap.png|thumb|left|300px|Thysdrus was near the [[fossa regia|"Royal Ditch"]] ({{lang-la|Fossa Regia}}) that marked the border between the Roman-controlled Africa and independent Berber tribes. East of the ditch, cities were fully [[Romanisation (cultural)|romanized]] by the [[Vandal Kingdom|arrival of the Vandals]]]] |
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The toponym ''Thysdrus'' has [[Berbers|Berber]] roots. The city was founded by the Romans on the site of an ancient, small Berber [[Punics|Punic]] village.<ref>[http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/siti_archeologici/thysdrus.html Thysdrus history (in Italian)]</ref> |
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Thysdrus began as a small [[Ancient Carthage|Carthaginian]] and [[Berbers|Berber]] village.<ref name=etahlyun/> |
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Following the [[Punic Wars]], it was refounded as a Roman town<ref name=etahlyun>[http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/africa/siti_archeologici/thysdrus.html Thysdrus's History.] {{in lang|it}}</ref> and probably received some of [[Julius Caesar]]'s veterans as settlers in 45{{nbsp}}BC. [[Punics|Punic]] culture remained long predominant, with the city minting [[bronze]] coins as late as [[Augustus]] with Punic inscriptions. Some bore [[Astarte]]'s head [[obverse]] and a [[lyre]] [[obverse|reverse]]; others bore "[[Poseidon]]"'s head obverse and a [[capricornis|capricorn]] reverse.{{sfnp|Head & al.|1911}} |
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Thysdrus probably received [[Julius Caesar]]'s veterans as settlers in 45 BC. Thysdrus did not become a "Municipium" (settlement with partial rights of citizenship) until the reign of [[Septimius Severus]].<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20187375?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104097503857 JSTOR: Thysdrus]</ref> In 244 AD it was declared "Colonia" by emperor [[Gordian III]]. |
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Roman Africa was less arid than modern Tunisia, and Thysdrus and the surrounding lands in [[Byzacena]] were an important center of [[olive oil]] production and export. Its greatest importance occurred under the [[Severan dynasty]] in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries. [[Septimius Severus]] was a native of Roman Africa and bestowed a great deal of imperial favor upon it. He raised Thysdrus to [[municipium|municipality status]] ({{lang-la|municipium}}) with partial [[Roman citizenship]].<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20187375?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21104097503857 JSTOR: Thysdrus]</ref> |
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By the early 3rd century when [[Amphitheater of Djem|its huge amphitheater]] was built, Thysdrus rivaled [[Hadrumetum]] (present-day [[Sousse]]) as the second city of Roman [[North Africa]], after [[Carthage]] (near present-day [[Tunis]]). The city had even a huge [[Roman circus|racetrack]] (''{{lang|la|circus}}''), nearly as large as the [[Circus Maximus]] at [[Rome]] and capable of accommodating about 30,000 spectators. |
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⚫ | In AD{{nbsp}}238, Thysdrus was at the center of a struggle to control the Roman Empire. After [[Maximinus Thrax]] killed Emperor [[Alexander Severus]] at [[Mainz|Moguntiacum]] in [[Germania Inferior]] and assumed the throne,<ref>Potter, pg. 167</ref> his oppressive rule resulted in universal discontent. Maximinus's [[procurator (Roman)|procurator]] in Africa, in particular, sought to extract the maximum level of taxation and fines possible, including falsifying charges against the local aristocracy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-7.3/|title=Herodian 7.3 - Livius|website=www.livius.org|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> A riot among the 50,000 Thysdrians ended with the death of the procurator, after which they turned to [[Gordian I|Gordian]] and demanded that he accept the dangerous honor of the imperial throne.<ref name="Southern, pg. 66">Southern, pg. 66</ref> After protesting that he was too old for the position, he eventually yielded to the popular clamor of the Thysdrians and assumed both the purple and the [[Roman naming conventions|epithet]] ''{{lang|la|Africanus}}'' ("the African") on March 22.<ref>Herodian, 7:5:8</ref> According to [[Edward Gibbon]]: |
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In 238 AD Thysdrus was at the center of a struggle to control the Roman Empire: [[Gordian I]] was helped by a riot of Thysdrus citizens and because of them was named emperor. All this happened after [[Maximinus Thrax]] killed Emperor [[Alexander Severus]] at [[Mainz|Moguntiacum]] in [[Germania Inferior]] and assumed the throne.<ref>Potter, pg. 167</ref> |
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⚫ | {{blockquote|An iniquitous sentence had been pronounced against some opulent youths of [Africa], the execution of which would have stripped them of far the greater part of their patrimony. (…) A respite of three days, obtained with difficulty from the rapacious treasurer, was employed in collecting from their estates a great number of slaves and peasants blindly devoted to the commands of their lords, and armed with the rustic weapons of clubs and axes. The leaders of the conspiracy, as they were admitted to the audience of the procurator, stabbed him with the daggers concealed under their garments, and, by the assistance of their tumultuary train, seized on the town of Thysdrus, and erected the standard of rebellion against the sovereign of the Roman empire. (...) Gordianus, their proconsul, and the object of their choice [as emperor], refused, with unfeigned reluctance, the dangerous honour, and begged with tears that they should suffer him to terminate in peace a long and innocent life, without staining his feeble age with civil blood. Their menaces compelled him to accept the Imperial purple, his only refuge indeed against the jealous cruelty of Maximin (...).<ref name="ReferenceB">Gibbon, ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', Vol. I, Ch. 7</ref>}} |
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⚫ | Due to his advanced age, he insisted that his son [[Gordian II|M. Antonius Gordianus]] be acclaimed as his coruler.<ref name="Southern, pg. 66">Southern, pg. 66</ref> A few days later, Gordian entered the city of [[Carthage]] with the overwhelming support of the population and local political leaders.<ref>Herodian, 7:6:2</ref> Meanwhile, in Rome, Maximinus's [[Praetorian Guard|praetorian prefect]] was assassinated and the rebellion seemed to be successful.<ref name="Potter, pg. 169">Potter, pg. 169</ref> Gordian in the meantime had sent an embassy to Rome under the leadership of [[Valerian (emperor)|P. Licinius Valerianus]]<ref>Zosimus, 1:11</ref> to obtain the Senate's support for his rebellion.<ref name="Potter, pg. 169">Potter, pg. 169</ref> |
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According to Edward Gibbon: |
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[[Image:Sestertius Gordian I-s2385.jpg|right|thumb|Gordian I on a coin, bearing the title AFR, ''Africanus''.]] |
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The senate confirmed the new emperor on 2 April and many of the provinces gladly sided with Gordian.<ref name="Potter, pg. 170">Potter, pg. 170</ref> |
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⚫ | Opposition would come from the neighboring province of [[Numidia]].<ref name="Southern, pg. 67">Southern, pg. 67</ref> Its governor Capelianus, a loyal supporter of Maximinus and a stalwart opponent of Gordian,<ref name="Potter, pg. 170">Potter, pg. 170</ref> renewed his alliance to the emperor and invaded the province of Africa with [[Legio III Augusta|the only legion stationed in the region]] and other veteran units.<ref>Herodian, 7:9:3</ref> Gordian{{nbsp}}II, at the head of a militia army of untrained soldiers mostly from Thysdrus and surroundings, lost the [[Battle of Carthage (238)|Battle of Carthage]] and was killed.<ref name="Potter, pg. 170">Potter, pg. 170</ref> Gordian killed himself in his [[Roman villa|villa]] near Carthage by hanging himself with his belt.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-7.9/|title=Herodian 7.9 - Livius|website=www.livius.org|access-date=2019-11-15}}</ref> The Gordians had "reigned" only thirty-six days.<ref name="Meckler, Gordian I">Meckler, ''Gordian I''</ref> |
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⚫ | Following this abortive revolt, Capelianus's troops sacked Thysdrus. Thysdrus was subsequently raised to the level of a [[Roman colonia|colony]] (''{{lang|la|colonia}}'') by {{nowrap|[[Gordian III]]}} in AD{{nbsp}}244. It was the seat of a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[diocese]], which is included in the [[Catholic Church]]'s list of [[titular see]]s.<ref>''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, {{ISBN|978-88-209-9070-1}}), p. 992</ref><ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1812.htm Titular Episcopal See of Thysdrus] at GCatholic.org.</ref> All the same, it never really recovered. |
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===Later history=== |
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Around 695, the Romano-Berber queen [[Kahina]] destroyed most of the olive trees of the Thysdrus area in her final attempt to stop the Arab invasion. She made her final stand at the amphitheater, but was defeated. |
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⚫ | {{blockquote|Similar to the Colosseum of Rome and to the theatre of Bosra, the amphitheatre was turned into a fortress where local tribes tried to check the Arab invasion of the region after the Byzantines had been defeated at Sufetula in 647. In 670 the Arabs founded Kairouan, forty miles north of Thysdrus, and made it the capital of the country. This fact, associated with the arrival of Arab nomadic tribes which led to the abandonment of farming, caused the decline of Thysdrus.|Roberto Piperno<ref>[http://romeartlover.tripod.com/Thysdrus.html Thysdrus history and photos]</ref>}} |
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However, following the abortive revolt that began there in 238 AD, and [[Gordian I]]'s suicide in his [[Roman villa|villa]] near Carthage, Roman troops loyal to the Emperor [[Maximinus Thrax]] destroyed the city of Thysdrus that had reached a population of nearly 50,000 inhabitants. It never really recovered, even if lasted as a small town until the Arab invasion in the seventh century. |
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⚫ | In the next centuries, Thysdrus largely disappeared from the record, with a worsening arid climate apparently damaging its [[olive oil]] production. By the 10th century, many of Thysdrus's buildings had been dismantled for use in construction at [[Kairouan]]. In the 19th century, French colonizers found only a small village named [[El Djem]], with a few hundred inhabitants living around the remains of the amphitheater and barely eking out enough production from their farms to survive. |
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The Romano-berber queen [[Kahina]] in her final attempt to stop the Arab invasion around 695 AD destroyed most of the olive trees of the Thysdrus area and used the amphitheater as a last defence, but was defeated. |
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{{main|Amphitheatre of El Jem}} |
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The [[Amphitheatre of El Jem]] was built around AD{{nbsp}}238 and it is one of the best preserved stone [[Roman architecture|Roman ruins]] in the world. It was named a [[World Heritage Site]] in 1979. |
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⚫ | Thysdrus's bishops attended the councils of 393, 411, and 641. The [[Donatist]] schism had a hold in the city around 411.<ref>Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=thysdrus THYSDRUS (El Djem) Tunisia], The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, N.J. [[Princeton University Press]]. 1976.</ref> |
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* {{citation |last=Head |first=Barclay |editor=Ed Snible |author2=G.F. Hill |author3=George MacDonald |author4=W. Wroth |display-authors=1 |display-editors=0 |url=http://snible.org/coins/hn/index.html |title=Historia Numorum |contribution=Byzacene |contribution-url=http://snible.org/coins/hn/byzacene.html |page=876 |date=1911 |edition=2nd |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |ref={{harvid|Head & al.|1911}} }}. |
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* {{citation | last = Canduci | first = Alexander | title =Triumph & Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Immortal Emperors | publisher = Pier 9 | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-74196-598-8}} |
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Location | Tunisia |
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Region | Mahdia Governorate |
Coordinates | 35°17′24″N 10°42′29″E / 35.29000°N 10.70806°E |
Thysdrus was a Carthaginian town and Roman colony near present-day El Djem, Tunisia. Under the Romans, it was the center of olive oil production in the provinces of Africa and Byzacena and was quite prosperous. The surviving amphitheater is a World Heritage Site.
Name[edit]
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The Punic name of the town was ŠṬPŠR (𐤔𐤈𐤐𐤔𐤓).[1] The Latin name Thysdrus has Berber roots.[2]
History[edit]
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Thysdrus began as a small Carthaginian and Berber village.[2]
Following the Punic Wars, it was refounded as a Roman town[2] and probably received some of Julius Caesar's veterans as settlers in 45 BC. Punic culture remained long predominant, with the city minting bronze coins as late as Augustus with Punic inscriptions. Some bore Astarte's head obverse and a lyre reverse; others bore "Poseidon"'s head obverse and a capricorn reverse.[1]
Roman Africa was less arid than modern Tunisia, and Thysdrus and the surrounding lands in Byzacena were an important center of olive oil production and export. Its greatest importance occurred under the Severan dynasty in the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries. Septimius Severus was a native of Roman Africa and bestowed a great deal of imperial favor upon it. He raised Thysdrus to municipality status (Latin: municipium) with partial Roman citizenship.[3]
By the early 3rd century when its huge amphitheater was built, Thysdrus rivaled Hadrumetum (present-day Sousse) as the second city of Roman North Africa, after Carthage (near present-day Tunis). The city had even a huge racetrack (circus), nearly as large as the Circus Maximus at Rome and capable of accommodating about 30,000 spectators.
In AD 238, Thysdrus was at the center of a struggle to control the Roman Empire. After Maximinus Thrax killed Emperor Alexander Severus at Moguntiacum in Germania Inferior and assumed the throne,[4] his oppressive rule resulted in universal discontent. Maximinus's procurator in Africa, in particular, sought to extract the maximum level of taxation and fines possible, including falsifying charges against the local aristocracy.[5] A riot among the 50,000 Thysdrians ended with the death of the procurator, after which they turned to Gordian and demanded that he accept the dangerous honor of the imperial throne.[6] After protesting that he was too old for the position, he eventually yielded to the popular clamor of the Thysdrians and assumed both the purple and the epithet Africanus ("the African") on March 22.[7] According to Edward Gibbon:
An iniquitous sentence had been pronounced against some opulent youths of [Africa], the execution of which would have stripped them of far the greater part of their patrimony. (…) A respite of three days, obtained with difficulty from the rapacious treasurer, was employed in collecting from their estates a great number of slaves and peasants blindly devoted to the commands of their lords, and armed with the rustic weapons of clubs and axes. The leaders of the conspiracy, as they were admitted to the audience of the procurator, stabbed him with the daggers concealed under their garments, and, by the assistance of their tumultuary train, seized on the town of Thysdrus, and erected the standard of rebellion against the sovereign of the Roman empire. (...) Gordianus, their proconsul, and the object of their choice [as emperor], refused, with unfeigned reluctance, the dangerous honour, and begged with tears that they should suffer him to terminate in peace a long and innocent life, without staining his feeble age with civil blood. Their menaces compelled him to accept the Imperial purple, his only refuge indeed against the jealous cruelty of Maximin (...).[8]
Due to his advanced age, he insisted that his son M. Antonius Gordianus be acclaimed as his coruler.[6] A few days later, Gordian entered the city of Carthage with the overwhelming support of the population and local political leaders.[9] Meanwhile, in Rome, Maximinus's praetorian prefect was assassinated and the rebellion seemed to be successful.[10] Gordian in the meantime had sent an embassy to Rome under the leadership of P. Licinius Valerianus[11] to obtain the Senate's support for his rebellion.[10]
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The senate confirmed the new emperor on 2 April and many of the provinces gladly sided with Gordian.[12]
Opposition would come from the neighboring province of Numidia.[13] Its governor Capelianus, a loyal supporter of Maximinus and a stalwart opponent of Gordian,[12] renewed his alliance to the emperor and invaded the province of Africa with the only legion stationed in the region and other veteran units.[14] Gordian II, at the head of a militia army of untrained soldiers mostly from Thysdrus and surroundings, lost the Battle of Carthage and was killed.[12] Gordian killed himself in his villa near Carthage by hanging himself with his belt.[15] The Gordians had "reigned" only thirty-six days.[16]
Following this abortive revolt, Capelianus's troops sacked Thysdrus. Thysdrus was subsequently raised to the level of a colony (colonia) by Gordian III in AD 244. It was the seat of a Christian diocese, which is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[17][18] All the same, it never really recovered.
Later history[edit]
Around 695, the Romano-Berber queen Kahina destroyed most of the olive trees of the Thysdrus area in her final attempt to stop the Arab invasion. She made her final stand at the amphitheater, but was defeated.
Similar to the Colosseum of Rome and to the theatre of Bosra, the amphitheatre was turned into a fortress where local tribes tried to check the Arab invasion of the region after the Byzantines had been defeated at Sufetula in 647. In 670 the Arabs founded Kairouan, forty miles north of Thysdrus, and made it the capital of the country. This fact, associated with the arrival of Arab nomadic tribes which led to the abandonment of farming, caused the decline of Thysdrus.
— Roberto Piperno[19]
In the next centuries, Thysdrus largely disappeared from the record, with a worsening arid climate apparently damaging its olive oil production. By the 10th century, many of Thysdrus's buildings had been dismantled for use in construction at Kairouan. In the 19th century, French colonizers found only a small village named El Djem, with a few hundred inhabitants living around the remains of the amphitheater and barely eking out enough production from their farms to survive.
Buildings[edit]
The Amphitheatre of El Jem was built around AD 238 and it is one of the best preserved stone Roman ruins in the world. It was named a World Heritage Site in 1979.
Religion[edit]
Thysdrus's bishops attended the councils of 393, 411, and 641. The Donatist schism had a hold in the city around 411.[20]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b Head & al. (1911).
- ^ a b c Thysdrus's History. (in Italian)
- ^ JSTOR: Thysdrus
- ^ Potter, pg. 167
- ^ "Herodian 7.3 - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ a b Southern, pg. 66
- ^ Herodian, 7:5:8
- ^ Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, Ch. 7
- ^ Herodian, 7:6:2
- ^ a b Potter, pg. 169
- ^ Zosimus, 1:11
- ^ a b c Potter, pg. 170
- ^ Southern, pg. 67
- ^ Herodian, 7:9:3
- ^ "Herodian 7.9 - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ Meckler, Gordian I
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 992
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Thysdrus at GCatholic.org.
- ^ Thysdrus history and photos
- ^ Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland THYSDRUS (El Djem) Tunisia, The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.
Bibliography[edit]
- Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Byzacene", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 876.
- Herodian, Roman History, Book 7.
- Southern, Pat (2001), The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine, Abingdon: Routledge.
- Syme, Ronald (1971), Emperors and Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Potter, David Stone (2004), The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395, Abingdon: Routledge.
- Birley, Anthony (2005), The Roman Government in Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-925237-4.
- Zosimus, A New History.