Ksour-el-Maïete is a set of ruins in

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

near the Cherita and the

Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani The Sebkha Sidi El Hani () is a salt lake in the Sousse Governorate of Tunisia, southwest of the city of Sousse and southeast of the city of Kairouan. It covers an area of 36,000 hectares and consists of three depressions: the Sidi El Hani se ...

lakes. The ruins date from the

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and are tentatively identified as a station on the

Roman Road Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...

from Althiburos To Thysdrus. According to one interpretation of the Antonine Itinerary,''Itinéraire d'Antonin'', éd. d'O. Cuntz, (

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, 1929) (1990 ). and Pierre Salama, ''Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord'', Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949). it is the site known in the Roman era as Germaniciana.

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