Tebourba (rear RTL طبربة) is a city of the north of the Tunisia located on left bank of the Medjerda (35 kilometers in the west of Tunis) vis-a-vis the town of El Battan.

Chief town of a delegation belonging to the Governorship of Manouba, its population is estimated at 26.665 inhabitants (2006).

History

The modern city is built partly on the site of the Roman city of Thuburbo Minus which depended on the province of Africa proconsulaire. It counted at first century BC, according to the Itinéraire of Antonin , nearly 2500 inhabitants and appeared on a chart of the Roman Highway network: the Table of Peutinger . It gives its name to the current city.

It is in Thuburbo Minus, at the time of primitive Christianity, that the famous Christian martyrs Sainte Perpetuates and Sainte Félicie is held with their co-religionists before their setting with died in the Amphithéâtre of Carthage in 202 or 203. The city becomes later a episcopal see and gives two known bishops: Victor, taking part in the council of Carthage (412) where it is a competitor of the donatist Maximinus, and Germanus which signs in 646 the letter of the bishops of the consulate addressed to the patriarch Paul II of Constantinople against the Monothélisme. It is rebuilt as from the 15th century by Moors come from Andalusia. They are at the origin of the application of an original town-planning, namely an urban screen in checkerwork with 8 Avenue S converging towards a vast rectangular place around which are built Mosquée S, Commerce S and foundouks. As for the Roman Amphitheater, it is demolished at the 17th century to leave room to the construction of a Pont.

During the Second world war, Tebourba is the place of an important battle, the December 31st 1942, where clash the Anglo-American troops and the Italian-German troops. The battle is gained by the seconds and the destroyed city.

Economy

Tebourba, located in the valley of the only perennial river of Tunisia, has, as of the ancient time, an agricultural vocation based on the production of Blé, of Olive oil and Vin.

Strongly developed under the period of the French protectorate, the vine growing knows a revival through the production of a AOC, the Côteaux of Tébourba, for the production of red wines and rosy of which most famous is Magon.

It also has an important industrial park which a direct rail link with Tunis develops. Moreover, without being a notorious tourist place, the city often constitutes a stage in the tourist tours which are interested in the inheritances antique or Andalusian. The monument emblematic of the city is the bridge-stopping of El Battan, built in 1690 under the reign of Mourad II Bey, beautiful work of 16 Arche S which makes it possible to use the water of Medjerda to irrigate the arable lands and to actuate the fulling mills of the city.

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