Chebba

Chebba (Arabic الشابة, also La Chebba, Ash Shabbah, aš - Sabbah, Sheba ) is a Tunisian town in Mahdia Governorate in North Africa, on the coast of the Mediterranean.

History

Chebba stirred its name from a headland 3 km east forth, which was known in ancient times as Caput Vada ( headland above the shallows ).

The Byzantine general Belisarius landed 533 on there and added a heavy defeat on the Vandals. The city Chebba was founded after the defeat of the Vandals by Justinian I around 534 under the name Justinianopolis.

The headland ( Caput Vada ) is now known as Ras Kaboudia and is bordj on the ruins of the coastal fortress (: Coastal Fortress), Bordj Khadidja, which was built on Byzantine foundations. The fortress guarded the harbor entrance and was part of a defensive ring of the same forts which had been built by the Abbasids in the 8th century on the shores of North Africa. Later it was renamed in the 11th century by the poet in Khadija Ben Kalthoum, who was born in Chebba.

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Chebba is also the name of two songs; by the Algerian singer Cheb Khaled of 1993 and by the Austrian musician Hans Platzgumer from the year 2002.