Qualla: Thelepte https://qualla.com/thelepte en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/n/n/thelepte-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Thelepte https://qualla.com/thelepte Thelepte: Introduction https://qualla.com/thelepte/ Photo credit Astiosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ten churches. Archaeologists have found the remains of ten churches among the ruins of Thelepte, a city that has been dust and rubble for centuries. One of them had a nave and four aisles, a scale of worship that suggests a community punching well above its weight. For a provincial city in what is now western Tunisia, five kilometers north of modern Feriana, that concentration of sacred architecture tells a story of faith, power, and connectivity that once radiated outward along Roman roads to Carthage, Gafsa, and Gabes.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/n/n/thelepte-wp/snnn-thelepte-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Thelepte: Crossroads of Empire https://qualla.com/thelepte/ Photo credit Astiosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Thelepte held the rank of colonia, the highest municipal status in the Roman administrative system. That distinction was earned through geography: the city sat at the nexus of an important road network linking it to Cilium and Theveste to the north and Gafsa and Gabes to the sout...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/n/n/thelepte-wp/snnn-thelepte-crossroads-of-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full Thelepte: A City of Bishops https://qualla.com/thelepte/ Photo credit Astiosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0. The ecclesiastical history of Thelepte reads like a who's who of early African Christianity. Bishop Julianus attended the Council of Carthage in 256, called by Cyprian to debate the thorny question of how to treat Christians who had lapsed under persecution. Donatianus, a later b...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/n/n/thelepte-wp/snnn-thelepte-a-city-of-bishops.mp3 0:06 3 full Thelepte: Birthplace of a Saint https://qualla.com/thelepte/ Photo credit Astiosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Thelepte's most famous son was Fulgentius, born here before becoming the bishop of Ruspe, a city whose exact location historians have never definitively established. Fulgentius emerged as one of the most important Latin Christian theologians of the late fifth and early sixth cent...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/n/n/n/thelepte-wp/snnn-thelepte-birthplace-of-a-saint.mp3 0:06 4 full Thelepte: What the Ruins Remember https://qualla.com/thelepte/ Photo credit Astiosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today the ruins of Thelepte spread across the landscape at Medinet el-Kedima, a little north of Gafsa. A Byzantine citadel occupies the center of what was once the city, though it stands in utter ruin. Around it, the remains of baths and a theater sketch the outlines of Roman civ...

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