Simittu
Σιμίσθου
Simittu (Σιμίσθου, Ptol. 4.3.29), called by Pliny (5.4.4) Simittuense Oppidum, a Roman colony in the interior of Numidia, on the road from Cirta to Carthago, 7 miles to the W. of Bulla Regia. (Itin. Ant. p. 43.) There were some mineral waters 5 miles E. of the town (Ib.). It lay on the site of the present Ain Semit, on the Qued-el-Bull, 2 leagues to the W. of Bull.
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.