Dougga

Dougga is a small town in the north of that holds the extensive ruins of a Roman town, set on a hilltop, overlooking surrounding valleys with olive plantations, featured on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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    September 16th—March 31st: 8:30 AM—5:30 PM
    April 1st—September 15th: 8:00 AM—7:00 PM
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Tunisia
  • Also known as: Djouggar”, “Duqqa”, and “Thugga
  • Address: دقة

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arch of Alexander Severus and Baths.

Ruins
The is a Roman triumphal arch in the ancient civitas of Thugga, located in Dougga, , . It was dedicated to the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus.

Ruins
The Aïn Doura are a series of Roman-era ruins located in Dougga, . The site contains ruins from a dating to the 4th century, and is considered an important archaeological heritage site by the National Heritage Institute of Tunisia.

Ruins
The Roman is an ancient theatre located in in the north-west of Tunisia.

Dougga

Latitude
36.4234° or 36° 25′ 24″ north
Longitude
9.2185° or 9° 13′ 7″ east
Elevation
571 metres (1,873 feet)
Open location code
8F8FC6F9+99
Open­Street­Map ID
way 204663411
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
2471332
Wiki­data ID
Q32378
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Dougga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: دقة
  • Arabic: دڨة
  • Asturian: Dougga
  • Basque: Dougga
  • Bulgarian: Дуга
  • Catalan: Dougga
  • Catalan: Thugga
  • Chinese: 沙格鎮
  • Chinese: 沙格镇
  • Croatian: Dougga
  • Czech: Dougga
  • Czech: Thugga
  • Dagbani: Dougga
  • Danish: Dougga
  • Danish: Thugga
  • Dutch: Dougga
  • Dutch: Thugga
  • Egyptian Arabic: دقه
  • Finnish: Dougga
  • Finnish: Thugga
  • French: Dougga
  • French: Thugga
  • French: Tukka
  • Galician: Dougga
  • Georgian: დუგა
  • Georgian: ტუგა
  • German: Dougga
  • German: Duqa
  • German: Duqqa
  • German: Thugga
  • Hausa: Dougga
  • Hebrew: דוגה
  • Hungarian: Dugga
  • Indonesian: Dougga
  • Italian: Dougga
  • Italian: Thugga
  • Japanese: ドゥッガ
  • Lithuanian: Duga
  • Maltese: Dougga
  • Maltese: Thugga
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Dougga
  • Norwegian: Dougga
  • Occitan (post 1500): Dougga
  • Persian: دوگا
  • Polish: Dougga
  • Polish: Dugga
  • Polish: Thugga
  • Portuguese: Dougga
  • Portuguese: Duga
  • Portuguese: Thugga
  • Russian: Дугга
  • Serbo-Croatian: Dougga
  • Slovak: Dukka
  • Slovak: Thugga
  • Spanish: Dougga
  • Spanish: Thugga
  • Swedish: Dougga
  • Swedish: Thugga
  • Turkish: Thugga
  • Ukrainian: Дугга
  • Uzbek: Dugga
  • Welsh: Dougga

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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 Wikivoyage page “Dougga”. Photo: Emna Trabelsi, CC BY-SA 3.0.