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Haribus
Guellala? (Barrington)
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Haribus may be Hares or Ares, the later name of Meninx, the old capital of the island of Djerba, and a bishop Secundus of Ares is recorded in 411. Older research placed it at El Kantara, a field of ruins with columns of Carrara marble and porphyry, Corinthian capitals, statues, a citadel and a splendid temple with twelve imperial statues, all of late Roman date. Kantara means the bridge: the Roman causeway that once linked the island to the mainland still rises from the shallows at low tide.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).
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