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Tuburbo Majus

Tuburbo Majus and MINUS (Θουβουρβώ, Ptol. 4.3.35), two neighbouring towns in the interior of Byzacium. The latter is still; called Tebourba; the former is variously identified with Tubersole and Zaghouan. Pliny (5.4. s. 4) writes the name Tuburbis. (Itin. Ant. pp. 44, 48; Tab. Pent.)

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.