Téboursouk

Teboursouk is a town in northern Tunisia, about 100 kilometers southwest of Tunis. It belongs to the governorate of Beja and has about 11,000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the slopes of a ridge at the edge of the river plain of the Khalled in a world characterized by olive groves and meadows landscape.

History

The story Téboursouks goes back to ancient times, when the city was known from Roman times as Thubursicum Bure, but probably always stood in the shadow of the local Thuggas. It was only in the Byzantine period n in the 6th century BC took to their importance, when the city was like many others in the region expanded into a fortress. The remains of these walls still partially surrounded the old city and contain traces of the older Roman city as a built into the walls, half-buried archway. In the Middle Ages followed a largely meaningless.

During the time of the French Protectorate in Tunisia Teboursouk received its town charter in 1904.