Back طاغاست Arabic Tagaste Catalan Tagaste Spanish Thagaste French Tagaste Italian 타가스테 Korean Tagasta Polish Tagaste Portuguese Thagaste Romanian Тагаст Russian
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| Location | Algeria |
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| Region | Souk Ahras Province |
| Coordinates | 36°17′11″N 7°57′4″E / 36.28639°N 7.95111°E |
Thagaste (or Tagaste) was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria, now called Souk Ahras.[2][3] The town was the birthplace of Saint Augustine.[4][5]
- ^ Kiepert, H (1869). Atlas Antiquus.
- ^ Braudel, Fernand (1995). A History of Civilizations. Penguin Books. p. 335. ISBN 9780140124897.
A Berber, born in 354 at Thagaste (now Souk-Ahras) in Africa...
- ^ of Hippo, Augustine (1976). Yates, Jonathan P. (ed.). Augustinian Studies. Vol. 7–8. Philosophy Documentation Center. p. 134.
...he grew up in an area which was a center of Berber culture.
- ^ "Tagaste". Associazione Storico-Culturale S. Agostino (in Italian). Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.