Sufetula

Proper noun

Sufetula

1. An ancient Roman and Byzantine town in the North African province Creta et Cyrenaica, near present-day Sbeitla, Tunisia.
   • The præfect himself was slain by the hand of Zobeir: his daughter, who sought revenge and death, was surrounded and made prisoner; and the fugitives involved in their disaster the town of Sufetula, to which they escaped from the sabres and lances of the Arabs.1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 5, published 1866, page 238
   • Its presence in the very centre of the town certainly emphasises the dominance of Christianity at Sufetula from at least the fourth century onwards.2007, Gareth Sears, Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and transformation in the city, page 55