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- ↑ "Bir el Menadla (Menadla Birel) Map, Weather and Photos - Tunisia: Well - Lat:35.4333 and Long:10.2667".
- ↑ Bir el Menadla at mapcarta.com.
- ↑ Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques Archived 2017-08-13 at the Wayback Machine (1900) p126.
- ↑ Forontoniana at .gcatholic.org
- ↑ L'Afrique Chretienne p.177 .
- ↑ Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Algiers, 1951.
- ↑ O. Cuntz, Itinéraire d'Antonin, (Leipzig, 1929) (1990 ISBN 3-519-04273-8).
- ↑ Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949).
- ↑ Tissot, Geogr., II, p.588.