Crich-El-Oued

Crich El Oued, also known as Qarish el-Wadi (હવામાન માટે આગાહી), is a village in Tunisia,[2] located between Bordj Toumi and Majaz al Bab[3] (36° 41' 00" N 9° 40' 00" E) in Béja Governorate east of Tunis.[4] The village is on the Medjerda river[5][6] at the confluence with the Oued el-Ahmar and the town has a mosque[7]

Crich-El-Oued

Qarish el-Wadi

Thisiduo
Village
Nickname(s): 
Chisiduo[1]
Crich-El-Oued
Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 36°38′37″N 9°36′15″E
Country Tunisia
GovernorateBéja Governorate

Roman Ruins

The ruins west of Crich-El-Oued are the remains of the Roman city of Thisiduo otherwise Thisiduum,[8] a city of Africa Proconsularis[9][10][11] which flourished 330 BC - 640AD.

Roman Name

The original name of the town was probably Thisinduo / Thisinduum. Thomas,[12] reconstructed it thus, and recently found [13] inscriptions which have confirmed this.[14][15]

The town appears on the Tabula Peutingeriana,[16][17] and Ravenna Cosmpographica[18] The name evolved following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb from Thisinduo to Chisiduo.[19] and then Crich.

Roman History

The history of Thisiduum is hardly known. The inscription CIL 14763 = ILS 6781 testifies to a municipium under Latin law, and to an aedile.[20] Toulotte suspects in Bishop Tadduensis of the year 646 an origin from Thisiduum.[21]

There are few remains meaningfully sited in the ruins because of reuse of the stone in the Middle Ages[22] and building over the former structures.[23] There are remains of a Roman bridge that crosses the Oued el Hamar[24] and some temples are discernible, with a number of trunks of columns, some in stone, others in white marble, littering the town. Inscriptions bear witness to at least two temples[25]

There are also separate ruins nearby at Chouigui and Goubellat and 7 km away at Medjez el Bab.

Ancient Bishopric

During the Roman Empire this part of the Medjerda river valley had a high density of bishoprics [26] with four other bishops resident within 10 kilometers of Crich El Oued.

References
  1. Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III:(BRILL, 2002) p169.
  2. Crich El Oued wiki.
  3. Crich el Oued at mapmonde.org.
  4. Crich El Oued.
  5. Thisiduo
  6. Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 E3
  7. Gaston Vuillier , Tunisia (illustrated by the author) (1896).
  8. Titular Episcopal See of Thisiduo at Gcatholic.org.
  9. Thisiduo at Trismegistos Geo.
  10. Victor Guérin, Archaeological Journey In The Regency Of Tunis (Рипол Классик ) p183-184.
  11. R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, sgilles Thisiduo at Pleiades.stoa.org.
  12. FW THOMASThe Classical Review, Vol.5, Issue 9 November 1891, pp. 434-438.
  13. 8007490: Thisiduum/Crich el Oued.
  14. M Kleijwegt , Beans, baths and the barber... A sacred law from Thuburbos Maius Antiquités africaines (1994)Vol30, Num1 pp. 209-220.
  15. R. Cagnat - A. Merlin - L. Chatelain u. a., Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc) (Paris 1923);
  16. FW Thomas, The Classical Review, Vol.5, Issue 9 November 1891, pp. 434-438.
  17. Tabula Peutingeriana.
  18. M. Pinder, G. Parthey, Ravennatis anonymi cosmographia et Guidonis geographica (Рипол Классик, 1962) p19.
  19. Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III:(BRILL, 2002) p169.
  20. Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners Under the Early Empire, Volume 4 (1909, Straßburg)
  21. http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/arachne/index.php?view[layout]=topographie_item&search[constraints][topographie][searchSeriennummer]=8007490 8007490: .
  22. Edmond Pellissier de Reynaud, DESCRIPTION OF THE TUNIS REGENCE (Paris, Impr. Imperiale, 1853).
  23. E. Babelon – R. Cagnat – S. Reinach, Atlas Archéologique de la Tunisie. Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie : édition spéciale des cartes topographiques publiées par le Ministère de la Guerre. accompagnée d'un texte explicatif rédigé par Mm (Paris 1893);
  24. E. Babelon – R. Cagnat – S. Reinach, Atlas Archéologique de la Tunisie. Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie : édition spéciale des cartes topographiques publiées par le Ministère de la Guerre. accompagnée d'un texte explicatif rédigé par Mm (Paris 1893).
  25. J. Poinssot, Archaeological trip to Tunisia. Period: 1882-1883 African Antiquities Bulletin (vol3. 1885).
  26. Francois Decret, Early Christianity in North Africa (James Clarke & Co, 25 Dec. 2014) p85.
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