Ksour-el-Maïete is a set of

ruins Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate ...

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near the Cherita and the Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes. The ruins date from the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...

and are tentatively identified as a station on the Roman Road from

Althiburos Althiburos ( xpu, 𐤏𐤋𐤕𐤁𐤓𐤔, ʿ or xpu, 𐤀𐤋𐤕𐤁𐤓𐤔, label=none, ʼ) was an ancient Berber, Carthaginian, and Roman settlement in what is now the Dahmani Delegation of the Kef Governorate of Tunisia. During the rei ...

Thysdrus Thysdrus was a Carthaginian town and Roman colony near present-day El Djem, Tunisia. Under the Romans, it was the center of olive oil production in the provinces of Africa and Byzacena and was quite prosperous. The surviving amphitheater is a W ...

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

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, 1929) (1990 ). and

Pierre Salama Pierre Salama (2 January 1917 – 2 April 2009) was a French historian and archaeologist, specialist of Roman roads in Africa as well as milestones. An epigrapher, numismatist, he was also a specialist of historical geography Historical geogr ...

, ''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 Abbir Germaniciana also known as Abir Cella is the name of a Roman and Byzantine-era city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia). The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of Carthag ...

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