Rusuccuru
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.W. Potter
Creators: T.W. Potter
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 13, 2025 07:54 AM
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History
The ancient city of Rusuccuru was founded as a Punic settlement on the Oued Sebaou river. In the Roman period, an inscription indicates that Rusuccuru achieved the status of municipium under Septimius Severus, yet some sources continue to refer to it as a colonia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295334
36.9128545, 3.9096445
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 14545 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Rusuccuru (330 BC - AD 640)
- Rvsvccvrv colon̄ (Rusuccvru colon: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Rusucurium (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Rusuccenses (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Rusuccuru located on Addume (river) (unspecified date range)
- Rusuccuru next place in route Iomnium (30 BC - AD 640)
- Rusuccuru next place in route Tigisi (30 BC - AD 640)
- Cissi next place in route Rusuccuru (30 BC - AD 640)
settlement
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 30 G3 Rusuccuru
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dellys
T.W. Potter, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Rusuccuru: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295334> [accessed: 15 June 2025]
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