North Africa
Algeria
Tébessa Province

Tébessa

Tébessa or Tebessa, the classical Theveste, is the capital city of in northeastern , near the border with . It hosts several historical landmarks, the most important one being the wall that surrounds the city and its gates.
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  • Type: City with 197,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tébessa Province, Algeria
  • Also known as: “Tebessa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include CARACALLA’S GATE Tebessa and Cheikh Larbi Tébessa Airport.

Castle
Photo: Zalitahar, Public domain.
The Arch of Caracalla is a tetrapylon Roman triumphal arch in Thebeste, located in present-day Tébessa, , . It was constructed during the early 3rd century.

Aerodrome
is a public airport located 1.35 nautical miles north of Tébessa, the capital of the province in Algeria.

Tébessa

Latitude
35.4036° or 35° 24′ 13″ north
Longitude
8.1212° or 8° 7′ 16″ east
Population
197,000
Elevation
867 metres (2,844 feet)
IATA airport code
TEE
United Nations Location Code
DZ TBS
Open location code
8F7CC43C+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299683227
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2477461
Wiki­data ID
Q984575
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Tébessa” goes by many names.
  • Algerian Arabic: “تبسة تيفيست”
  • Arabic: “التبسة”
  • Arabic: “تبسة”
  • Arabic: “تبسه”
  • Armenian: “Թեբեսա”
  • Armenian: “ՏԵբեսսա”
  • Asturian: “Tébessa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tebessa”
  • Basque: “Tebessa”
  • Basque: “Tébessa”
  • Belarusian: “Тэбеса”
  • Belarusian: “Тэбэса”
  • Bengali: “তেবেসা”
  • Catalan: “Tebessa”
  • Catalan: “Theveste”
  • Cebuano: “Tébessa (kapital sa lalawigan sa Arhelya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tébessa”
  • Chinese: “Tébessa”
  • Chinese: “泰貝薩”
  • Chinese: “泰贝萨”
  • Chinese: “特柏萨”
  • Chinese: “特柏薩”
  • Czech: “Tebessa”
  • Danish: “Tebessa”
  • Dutch: “Tbessa”
  • Dutch: “Tebessa”
  • Dutch: “Tébessa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تبسه”
  • Esperanto: “Tebesa”
  • Finnish: “Tébessa”
  • French: “Tbessa”
  • French: “Tebessa”
  • French: “Tébessa”
  • French: “Theveste”
  • French: “Théveste”
  • German: “Tbessa”
  • German: “Tebessa”
  • German: “Tébessa”
  • German: “Theveste”
  • German: “Tibissa”
  • Greek: “Θεβέστη”
  • Greek: “Τεμπέσα”
  • Gujarati: “ટેબેસા”
  • Hausa: “Tebessa”
  • Hebrew: “טבסה”
  • Hebrew: “תבסה”
  • Hindi: “टबेससा”
  • Hindi: “तेबेस्स”
  • Hungarian: “Tébessa”
  • Indonesian: “Tébessa”
  • Italian: “Tebessa”
  • Italian: “Tébessa”
  • Japanese: “テベサ”
  • Japanese: “テベッサ”
  • Kabyle: “Tbessa”
  • Kannada: “ತೆಬೆಸ್ಸ”
  • Kazakh: “Tebessa qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Тебесса қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тебесса”
  • Kazakh: “تەبەسسا قالاسى”
  • Korean: “테베사”
  • Latin: “Theveste”
  • Latvian: “Tebesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tebesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tebessa”
  • Lithuanian: “Theveste”
  • Lithuanian: “Tibisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Tibissah”
  • Malay: “Tebessa”
  • Malay: “Tébessa”
  • Marathi: “टेबसेसा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tébessa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tebessa”
  • Norwegian: “Tébessa”
  • Persian: “تبسه، الجزایر”
  • Persian: “تبسه”
  • Polish: “Tabassa”
  • Polish: “Tabissa”
  • Polish: “Tebessa”
  • Polish: “Tébessa”
  • Polish: “Theveste”
  • Polish: “Tibissa”
  • Portuguese: “Tebessa”
  • Portuguese: “Tébessa”
  • Romanian: “Tebessa”
  • Romanian: “Tébessa”
  • Russian: “Тебесса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tebessa”
  • Sinhala: “ටේබෙස්සා”
  • Slovenian: “DZ-12”
  • Slovenian: “Theveste”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تبسه، الجزاییر”
  • Spanish: “Tbessa”
  • Spanish: “Tebessa”
  • Spanish: “Tébessa”
  • Swahili: “Tébessa”
  • Swedish: “Tbessa”
  • Swedish: “Tebessa”
  • Swedish: “Tébessa”
  • Tamil: “டெபெஸ்ஸா”
  • Telugu: “తెబెస్స”
  • Thai: “เตเบซซา”
  • Turkish: “Tébessa”
  • Ukrainian: “Тебесса”
  • Urdu: “تبسہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Tébessa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tebessa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tébessa”
  • Western Panjabi: “تیبازہ”
  • Zulu: “Tébessa”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tébessa”. Photo: Takiva, CC BY-SA 4.0.