Sousse
3000 years of history
On the West coast of Tunisia and only with two hours of road in the bus of the capital, extends a panoramic motorway which carries out towards the historical city of SOUSSE.
SOUSSE was rested by the Phoenicians, who one called HADRUMEDUM. It could be even that this city was independent well before Carthage at the 6th century before J.C, when it had fallen under the influence from the Carthaginians.
After the Punic War at the second century before J.C and the destruction of Carthage by the Romans, SOUSSE became a colony of the TRAJAN what made of it a productive and prosperous city.
The next century, HADRUMEDUM suffered much from the Romains reprisals related to agitation with EL DJEM at the time of the construction of the large amphitheatre. But city A evaluates under the short one reigns of the Vandals who named it HUNERICOPOLIS. The Byzantines gave him a third name: JUSTIMAPOLIS. In these times the city was due good in front of to the victorious OKBA IBN NAFÂA, companion of the Moslem prophet and founder of the large Mosque of KAIROUAN. And it is only under the influence of the dynasty of Aghlabit Arab that the city is definitively to reconcile with the sea. What a new breath of life has to give to him, this evidence being able us to find them on some monuments, nowadays.
This strategic coast A was successively occupied by the Norman ones at the 12th century, then by the Spanish ones at the 16th century and the French at the 18th century. During the Second World War, the town of SOUSSE A was several times bombarded, but in 1945 A was definitively released.