Tébessa
Tébessa or Tebessa, the classical Theveste, is the capital city of Tébessa Province in northeastern Algeria, near the border with Tunisia. It hosts several historical landmarks, the most notable being the wall that surrounds the city and its gates.
- Type: City with 197,000 residents
- Description: city in Tébessa Province, Algeria
- Also known as: “Tabassa”, “Tabissa”, “Tebessa”, “Théveste”, “Tibisa”, “Tibissah”, “Θεβέστη”, “التبسة”, “ⵜⴱⴻⵙⵜ”, “テベサ”, “特柏萨”, and “特柏薩”
Places of Interest
Highlights: CARACALLA’S GATE Tebessa and Cheikh Larbi Tébessa Airport.
Tébessa
- Categories: commune of Algeria, Roman city, and locality
- Location: Tébessa Province, Algeria, North Africa, Africa
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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
UN/LOCODE
DZ TBS
Open location code
8F7CC43C+CF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Algerian Arabic to Zulu—“Tébessa” goes by many names.
- Algerian Arabic: “تبسة تيفيست”
- Amharic: “ተበሳ”
- Arabic: “تبسة”
- Armenian: “Թեբեսա”
- Armenian: “ՏԵբեսսա”
- Asturian: “Tébessa”
- Azerbaijani: “Tebessa”
- Basque: “Tebessa”
- Basque: “Tébessa”
- Belarusian: “Тэбеса”
- Belarusian: “Тэбэса”
- Bengali: “তেবেসা”
- Bengali: “তেবেস্সা”
- Catalan: “Tebessa”
- Catalan: “Theveste”
- Cebuano: “Tébessa (kapital sa lalawigan sa Arhelya)”
- Cebuano: “Tébessa”
- Chinese: “泰貝薩”
- Chinese: “泰贝萨”
- Czech: “Tebessa”
- Danish: “Tebessa”
- Dutch: “Tébessa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تبسه”
- Esperanto: “Tebesa”
- Finnish: “Tébessa”
- French: “Tébessa”
- German: “Tebessa”
- German: “Tibissa”
- Greek: “Τεμπέσα”
- Gujarati: “ટેબેસા”
- Hausa: “Tebessa”
- Hebrew: “טבסה”
- Hebrew: “תבסה”
- Hindi: “तेबेस्स”
- Hindi: “तेबेस्सा”
- Hungarian: “Tébessa”
- Indonesian: “Tebessa”
- Indonesian: “Tébessa”
- Italian: “Tébessa”
- Japanese: “テベッサ”
- Javanese: “Tebessa”
- Kabyle: “Tbessa”
- Kannada: “ತೆಬೆಸ್ಸ”
- Kazakh: “Tebessa qalası”
- Kazakh: “Тебесса қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Тебесса”
- Kazakh: “تەبەسسا قالاسى”
- Kirghiz: “Тебесса”
- Korean: “테베사”
- Latin: “Theveste”
- Latvian: “Tebesa”
- Lithuanian: “Tebesa”
- Malay: “Tebessa”
- Malay: “Tébessa”
- Marathi: “टेबसेसा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tébessa”
- Northern Frisian: “Tébessa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tebessa”
- Norwegian: “Tébessa”
- Oromo: “Tebessa”
- Panjabi: “ਤੇਬੇਸਾ”
- Persian: “تبسه، الجزایر”
- Persian: “تبسه”
- Polish: “Tebessa”
- Polish: “Tibissa”
- Portuguese: “Tebessa”
- Portuguese: “Tébessa”
- Pushto: “تبسة”
- Romanian: “Tebessa”
- Romanian: “Tébessa”
- Russian: “Тебесса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tebessa”
- Sinhala: “ටේබෙස්සා”
- Slovenian: “DZ-12”
- Somali: “Tebessa”
- South Azerbaijani: “تبسه، الجزاییر”
- Spanish: “Tébessa”
- Swahili: “Tebessa”
- Swahili: “Tébessa”
- Swedish: “Tébessa”
- Tajik: “Тебесса”
- Tamil: “டெபெஸ்ஸா”
- Tatar: “Тебесса”
- Telugu: “తెబెస్స”
- Thai: “เตเบซซา”
- Turkish: “Tebessa”
- Turkish: “Tébessa”
- Ukrainian: “Тебесса”
- Urdu: “تبسة”
- Urdu: “تبسہ”
- Uzbek: “Tebessa”
- Vietnamese: “Tébessa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tébessa”
- Western Panjabi: “تیبازہ”
- Zulu: “Tébessa”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Thévest and 600 logements.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: L’étoile filante Tebessa and Mosquée El Atik;المسجد العتيق.
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