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Thugga

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Thugga: see Duggah Duggah or Dougga , village, Tunisia, SW of Tunis. It is a tourist spot noted for the ruins of the ancient city of Thugga, including a Punic mausoleum (2d cent. B.C.
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Thugga

 modern Dougga

Ancient city, North Africa. Located west of present-day Tunis, Tun., it was an important regional city when the Romans assimilated it c. AD 200. It is the best-preserved Roman site in Tunisia; its ruins include an arch in honour of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, a forum, baths, villas, an aqueduct, a theatre, and a temple of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. There is also a pre-Roman ruin of a 2nd-century-BC mausoleum. Thugga was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997.



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