Tunis Gallery

Isis temple, Roman ruins of Bulla Regia, Tunisia

Bulla Regia is an archaeological site in north western Tunisia, a former Roman city near modern Jendouba called officially Colonia Aelia Hadriana Augusta Bulla Regia. It is noted for its Hadrianic era semi subterranean housing, a protection from the fierce heat and effects of the sun. Many of the mosaic floors have been left in situ, others may be seen at the Bardo Museum, Tunis. There is also a small museum connected with the site

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Ancient Archway In Tunisia

Carthage was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia.
The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of an empire dominating the Mediterranean Sea during the first millennium BC.
The ancient city was destroyed by the Roman Republic in the Third Punic War in 146 BC then re-developed as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire in the province of Africa. The Roman city was again occupied by the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, in 698.
The site remained uninhabited, the regional power shifting to the medina of Tunis in the medieval period, until the early 20th century, when it began to develop into a coastal suburb of Tunis, incorporated as Carthage municipality in 1919

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Elegant building of the Casino de Belvedere - Tunis, Tunisia

Elegant building of the Casino de Belvedere at Tunis, Tunisia. Date: circa 1908

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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