MATERENSE OPPIDUM
MATERENSE OPPIDUM one of the thirty free towns ( “oppida libera,”
Plin. Nat. 5.4) of Zeugitana, It still retains the ancient name, and is the modem
Matter in the government of
Tunis,--a small village situated on a rising ground in the middle of a fruitful plain, with a rivulet a little below, which empties itself into the Sisara Palus. (Shaw,
Trav. p. 165; Barth,
Wanderungen, p. 206.)
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