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El Kenissia is a locality in Tunisia, North Africa.

El Kenissia is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Hadrumetum and is notable for the ruins of Civitas Pophtensis, a civitas of Roman North Africa, which include a Punic era temple complex, which was excavated by the French, and a Roman Era theater.

See also

• Louis Carton

References

1. Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 Dec. 2000) p21.
2. Carlton D, Les Fouilles D'El Kenissia (Ernest Leroux , 1906).
3. Colette Picard and Gilbert Ch. Picard , LE SANCTUAIRE PUNIQUE DE CIRTA Revue Archéologique Sixième Série, vol47 (Jan-Jun 1956), pp. 196-199.
4. Dexter Hoyos, A Companion to the Punic Wars (John Wiley & Sons, 26 May 2015) p451.
5. Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p224.
6. CIVITAS POPHTENSIS, Ksiba Sousse, Kenissia, el-Knissia.

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