Zama Minor

36.1118519.285484Koordinaten: 36 ° 6 ' 43 "N, 9 ° 17' 8" O Zama Minor was an ancient city in Numidia, a historic landscape in North Africa. The village is about 10 km northwest of the present Siliana in the north of Tunisia.

Historically is Zama Minor with the mentioned in historical records Numidian city of Zama (also called Zama Regia ) in conjunction. Here the battle of Zama between the Carthaginians under their general Hannibal and the Romans took place in 202 BC instead, was defeated the Elder in the Hannibal by the Roman General Scipio Africanus.

The exact location of ancient town of Zama is still controversial among historians. The Greek historian Polybius mentions the place five days traveling from Carthage removed, the Roman historian Sallust as built on flat ground Citadel. The Tabula Peutingeriana represents the city between Uzappa and Assuras, on the way to Thysdrus dar. is certain that the ancient Zama must have been lying in the plane between Siliana and Sers.

In historiography several epithets ( epithets ) are known for the place: Zama major ( the "big Zama "), even Zama Regia (Royal Zama ) called. This city is now suspected in place of the modern city Sers. Zama Minor a nearby colony near the Ouadi Mahrouf four kilometers east of Lemsa was probably located on a small hill. Here mentioned an inscription zamensis a colonia. Also the nahegelene village Jama is associated with the ancient Zama minor. Here are preserved some remains of ruins today. An inscription mentions a colonia augustua zama.

On an extinct bishopric in Zama Minor, the Roman Catholic titular Zama Minor declines.