Place · city

Sicca Veneria

Also known as Sicca, El Kef

Sicca Veneria was an ancient town in north-western Tunisia, on the site of modern El Kef, named after its sanctuary of a goddess identified with Venus. Under Carthage it was where mercenaries gathered before the Mercenary War of 241 BCE, and it later belonged to the Numidian kingdom. It became a Roman colony under Augustus and an important town of the province of Africa.

Sicca Veneria
Image: The original uploader was Moumou82 at French Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 profile

NumidiaSocioeconomy

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sicca Veneria. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sicca-veneria
MLA
“Sicca Veneria.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sicca-veneria. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Sicca Veneria.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sicca-veneria.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sicca Veneria’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sicca-veneria (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻