Abbir Maius
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Abbir Maius also known as Abbiritanus was a Roman and Byzantine-era civitas (city), later municipium, in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia).[1][2]
The town is identified through inscriptions[3][4] with ruins near Henchir el Khandaq in Zaghouan Governorate (latitude 36.374, longitude 10.008826 ). This is near the village of Bir Halima between El Fahs and Zaghouan.[5] In Roman times this would have placed the city in the bread basket Medjerda River Valley, south of Carthage.
Facilities
The city had an aqueduct,[6] completed by procurator Q. Geminius Faustus[7] and bath house.[8] And,[4][9] like Thignica, was a civitas dependent of Carthage but under the emperor Caracalla was promoted to be a municipium.[10]
