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(ADRUMETUM, also ADRUMETUS).
Atitular see of Byzacena. Hadrumetum was aPhoenician colony earlier than Carthage, and was already an important town when the latter rose to greatness. Hannibal made use of it as a military base in his campaign against Scipio at the close of the Second Punic War. Under the Roman Empire it became very prosperous;Trajan gave it the rank of acolonia. At the end of the third century it became the capital of the newly-made province of Byzacena. After suffering greatly from theVandal invasion, it was restored byJustinian, who called it Justinianopolis. It was again afflicted by theArabs (to whom it is known as Susa) and restored by the Aglabites in the eleventh century. In the twelfth century Norman ofSicily held it for a time; the French captured it in 1881.
Susa has today 25,000 inhabitants, of whom 1100 are French, and 5000 are otherEuropeans, mainlyItalians and Maltese. It is a government centre in the Province ofTunis. It has a few antiquities and some curiousChristiancatacombs. The native portion of the town has hardly altered. It has a museum, a garrison, an important harbour, and there are many oil wells in the neighbourhood.
Between 255 and 551 we know of ninebishops of Hadrumteum, the last of whom was Primasius, whose works are to be found in P.L., LXVIII, 467.
APA citation.Pétridès, S.(1910).Hadrumetum. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07105b.htm
MLA citation.Pétridès, Sophrone."Hadrumetum."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 7.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1910.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07105b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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