- Uthina is also a spider genus (Pholcidae)
Uthina or Oudna (Arabic: أوذنة) was an ancient Roman-Berber city located near Tunis, Tunisia.
Uthina was a town in the province of Africa Proconsularis, now northern Tunisia.[1]
Uthina became a Roman colony of veterans of Legio XIII Gemina during the reign of Emperor Augustus.[2] Hence, it was mentioned by Ptolemy (IV, 3, 34), Pliny the Elder,[3] and the Tabula Peutingeriana.[4]
From the accounts given by geographers the site seems to be the ruins that form the archeological site of Oudna, near a station on the railway from Tunis to Kef and not far from what was the World War II Oudna Airfield. These ruins occupy a surface nearly three miles in circumference, covering a hilly plateau, and commanding the left bank of the Milian wady; there are remains of a fortress, cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal arch, a theatre, an amphitheater, a basilica with a circular crypt, and a bridge. Many mosaics are to be found there as well.
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