Rusicade
Ῥουσίκαδα
Rusicade (Plin. Nat. 5.2; Mela, 1.7.1; Ῥουσίκαδα, Ptol. 4.3.3; Rusiccade, Itin. Ant., Peut. Tab.), the harbour of Cirta in Numidia and a Roman colonia, at the mouth of the small river THAPSUS (Vib. Seq. de Flum. p. 19: U. Safsa), and probably therefore identical with the THAPSA (Θάψα), a harbour-town, of Scylax (p. 50). Its site is near Stora; and the modern town of Philippeville the Râs-Skîkda, of the Arabs, is made in part of the materials of the old Rusicade (Barth, Wanderungen, p. 66).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.