Le difese militari della città di Susa in Tunisia

The city of Susa, in spite of its historical importance, has not provoked the curiosity of the geographers and the travelers. The news reached on the takeover is much vague and often confused. The only source that deserves a detail attention is given from the reading of the text of al-Bakri. The ancient Hadrumetum, today is one of the more important inhabited centers of Tunisia, pointed out on the Mediterranean Mar to approximately 58 East kilometers from the old one happens them Muslim of medieval Tunisia (Ifriqiya), Kairuan. The traces roman of mal’ab (the theatre are still obvious), built up also with the stone of it washes coming from the hollow ones of the Etna in Sicily, or the tempo said al-Fintas (the Crib), the first visible building to the sailors who arrive from the Sicilian coast. Conquered from Arabs in the WAYS century, Susa was constituted from some protect inhabited takeovers from inhabited its ribat and from ascetic people in charge of the defense of the coast. The site, with the Aghlabidi (IX s.), for its detail position, came chosen like naval base. From its port the main Muslim military shipments to the conquest of the Mediterranean islands (Sicily and Malta) and of southern Italy left.