Lares, Africa
archaeological site in Tunisia
see Lares (disambiguation) for namesakes
Lares, also called Laribus, was a city of Roman Africa and medieval Ifriqiya, located at modern Henchir Lorbeus, Tunisia.
Names
The site of present-day Lorbeus was called Laribus in Roman times. The 6th-century author Procopius wrote the name Laribouzoudoúon in Greek. The Medieval Arabic geographers Ibn Hawqal and al-Bakri wrote the name Lar(i)bus. Yaqut al-Hamawi vocalized the name as al-'Urbus, but Heinz Halm calls this "artificial". A similar spelling, al-'Urbūs, appears in the work of al-Idrisi.
Geography
The site of Laribus is located at the foot of Djebel Lorbeus, on a well-watered plain traversed by the Oued Lorbeus. This area has very fertile soil and (at least) in the early middle ages was densely populated. In the 6th century, this whole area was well-forested, but by the middle ages most of the forests had been cut down.
To the south of Laribus is the large plain of Ebba and El Ksour.
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