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Neapoli

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Nabeul, on the east coast of Cape Bon in Tunisia, keeps the name of Neapoli, a Phoenician or Punic foundation whose name is Greek for new city; its first, Punic name may have meant much the same. Thucydides calls it a Carthaginian trading post. Agathocles seized it in 310 BC, and in 148 BC the Roman consul Calpurnius Piso took it and, the citizens complained, let it be plundered despite a treaty. It later became a free town and then a Roman colony, and a bishop is first recorded in AD 256. Most of its remains lie buried.

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