Thala
γάλα
Thala (γάλα, Strab. xvii. p.831), an important town of Numidia, with a treasury and arsenal. (Sall. J. 75, 77, 80, 89; Tac. Ann. 3.21; Flor. iii. l.) It is probably identical with Telepte (Τελεπτή, Procop. de Aed. 6.6), a fortified town of Numidia, lying to the NW. of Capsa, and from which there was a road to Tacape on the Syrtis Minor (Itin. Ant. p. 77). Shaw (Trav. vol. i. p. 288, seq.) takes Ferreanah, both from its ruins and its situation, to have been the ancient Thala or Telepte (cf. Manner, 10.2. p. 321), but Lapie seeks it at Haouch-el-Khima.
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.