Sidi Khelifa (Tunisia)

Last updated February 22, 2019

Sidi Khelifa (Arabic: سيدي خليفة) is a Tunisian village located near the town of Bouficha on the Mediterranean coastal plain,^[1] about 100 kilometers south of Tunis.

Tunisia (officially the Republic of Tunisia) is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, covering 165,000 square kilometres. Its northernmost point, Cape Angela, is the northernmost point on the African continent. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia's population was 11.435 million in 2017. Tunisia's name is derived from its capital city, Tunis, which is located on its northeast coast.

Village Small clustered human settlement smaller than a town

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.

Bouficha (بوفيشة) or Bou Ficha is a Tunisian town situated about sixty kilometers south of Tunis, between Enfidha and Hammamet and close to the Gulf of Hammamet.

It is part of the delegation of Bouficha attached to the Governorate of Sousse and has a population of 2,536 inhabitants, located around the mausoleum of the patron saint Sidi Khelifa Solâani, who settled there in the late 18th century.

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum.

Patron saint saint regarded as the tutelary spirit or heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism or Eastern Orthodoxy, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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History

It is about a kilometer from an ancient Roman African site, Feradi Maius,^[2]^[3] whose vestiges discovered in 2003 date from the 2nd century and the 3rd century. In particular, there is the triumphal arch that gives access to the forum lined with commercial premises, a nymphaeum where the water of a spring, a Capitoline temple, thermal baths etc.

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At the top of the wooded hill that overlooks the site are the walls of a temple dedicated to Venus and transformed into a Castra (garrison fortress) in Byzantine times. The ancient city was the cathedral see of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp.

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References

↑ "Le site de Sidi Khélifa (Pheradi Majus)".
↑ About: Rusucmona?/Castra Delia, Ghar El Melh (Porto Farina)\.
↑ Jean-Claude Lachaux: Théâtres et amphithéâtres d'Afrique Proconsulaire. Édisud, La Calade, Aix-en-Provence 1970.

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[1] "Le site de Sidi Khélifa (Pheradi Majus)".

[2] About: Rusucmona?/Castra Delia, Ghar El Melh (Porto Farina)\.

[3] Jean-Claude Lachaux: Théâtres et amphithéâtres d'Afrique Proconsulaire. Édisud, La Calade, Aix-en-Provence 1970.