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  Ruspina USA - Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Ruspina was a city founded by the Roman Empire in Central Eastern Tunisia on the Mediterranean.
Ruspina olive oil was shipped to all corners of the known world.
Ruspina® olive oil is produced and packaged at its point of origin.
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 Ruspina Hotel Monastir, Tunisia - Ruspina Hotel Group Booking Reservation Meetings Meeting Planning Weddings ...
The Ruspina Hotel is the perfect place to hold a corporate event such as; team building, sales meetings, board of director meetings, or just corporate hospitality.
Weddings at the Ruspina Hotel with their facilities, guest rooms and experienced wedding and group management staff, are magnificent.
A Ruspina Hotel wedding reception is a party where guests come to celebrate the marriage of the bride and groom.
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 Battle of Ruspina - 46 BC
Caesar made a difficult landing during a storm that scattered his forces and immediately established a fortified camp near the small town of Ruspina.
Other accounts are less generous and estimate that the Romans may have lost as much as one third of their army in the action.
Following the set-back at Ruspina, Caesar was reenforced with at least four veteran legions and promptly set about crushing the Pompeian resistance in Africa at Thapsus, before turning his attention to a new Pompeian uprising in Spain.
fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/ruspina.html   (937 words)

  
 Ruspina hotel, Monastir hotels, TUNISIA hotels - Dilos Holiday World
The Ruspina Hotel is a 9 hectare complex with two floors in the central area and 20 bungalows, each with 6 rooms, on the beach.
In the main block of the hotel are 181 modern and comfortable rooms all interconnecting and accessible by an elevator.
The Hotel Ruspina also has a boardroom fully equipped for any type of business meeting and has space for 200 people.
www.dilos.com /hotel/8575   (386 words)

  
 Leaders and Battles: Ruspina,
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Fought January 3, 46 bc, between Julius Caesar, with three legions, and a force of Pompeians, composed entirely of cavalry and archers, under Labienus.
Caesar's troops were surrounded, but behaving with extreme steadiness, were able to retire to Ruspina in good order, though with very heavy losses.
www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayBattle.cfm?Bid=271   (58 words)

  
 The African War by Julius Caesar: Chapters 34-66
At the same time Allienus, the proconsul, put on board of the transports at Lilybaeum the thirteenth and fourteenth legions, with eight hundred Gallic horse and a thousand archers and slingers, and sent the second embarkation to Africa, to Caesar.
Thus he experienced a double pleasure on this occasion, receiving at one and the same time, both a supply of provisions and a reinforcement of troops, which animated the soldiers, and delivered them from the apprehensions of want.
Meanwhile deputies from the town of Tisdra came to Caesar to inform him, that some Italian merchants had brought three hundred thousand bushels of corn into that city, and to demand a garrison as well for their own defense as to secure the corn.
www.online-literature.com /caesar/africanwar/2   (4054 words)

  
 Caesar"s commentairies on the Gallic and Civil wars, The African wars
Toward the evening of that day, which was the calends of January, he fixed his camp at Ruspina.
Here he deposited the baggage of the army; and marching out with a light body of troops to forage, ordered the inhabitants to follow with their horses and carriages.
He landed a great number darts and military engines, armed part of the mariners, Gauls, Rhodians, and others, that after the example of the enemy he might have a number of light-armed troops to intermix with his cavalry.
www.earth-history.com /Europe/Wars/ceasar-african.htm   (11855 words)

  
 [Gaius Julius Caesar]: Commentary on the African War
Caesar, having continued the whole night on board, prepared to set sail about day-break; when, all on a sudden, the part of the fleet that had caused so much anxiety, appeared unexpectedly in view.
Meantime Caesar fortified his camp with much greater care, reinforced the guards, and threw up two intrenchments; one from Ruspina quite to the sea, the other from his camp to the sea likewise, to secure the communication, and receive supplies without danger.
While affairs were in this posture at Ruspina, M. Cato, who commanded in Utica, was daily enlisting freed-men, Africans, slaves, and all that were of age to bear arms, and sending them without intermission to Scipio's camp.
www.forumromanum.org /literature/caesar/africoe.html   (11840 words)

  
 Julius Caesar's War Commentaries
[9]Caesar moved his camp on the third day before the nones of January; and leaving six cohorts at Leptis, under the command of Saserna, returned with the rest of the forces to Ruspina, whence he had come the day before.
[20]Meantime Caesar fortified his camp with much greater care, reinforced the guards, and threw up two intrenchments; one from Ruspina quite to the sea, the other from his camp to the sea likewise, to secure the communication, and receive supplies without danger.
[36]While affairs were in this posture at Ruspina, M. Cato, who commanded in Utica, was daily enlisting freed-men, Africans, slaves, and all that were of age to bear arms, and sending them without intermission to Scipio's camp.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Caesar/CaesarAfrica.html   (11845 words)

  
 History of the Hellenistic and Roman World
Labienus had chosen to side with Pompeius, and now he faced Caesar with a cavalry advantage.
On January 4 at Ruspina, Labienius and Caesar clashed, and Caesar only barely managed to bring his army into camp.
But despite suffering from lack of supplies (the horses had to be fed seaweed), Caesar recovered and faced the senatorial forces at Thapsus on april 6.
www.fenrir.dk /history/index.php?title=Julius_Caesar_:_Dictator_(47_-_44_BCE)   (1728 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 213 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He took an active part in the campaign in Africa in b.
At the battle of Ruspina, fought at the beginning of January in this year, he was severely wounded ; and he was also present at the battle of Thapsus in the month of April, by which Caesar completely destroyed all the hopes of the Pompeian party in Africa.
After the loss of the battle Petreius fled with Juba to Zama, and as the inhabitants of that town would not admit them within its walls, they retired to a country house of Juba's, where despairing of safety they fell by each other's hands.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2547.html   (1011 words)

  
 Golf Flamingo Course Monastir Tunisia Tunisie Tunesien - Outdoor activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Given a setting where Ruspina land near Mediterranean sea, where the views take-in golden beaches and the endlessly olive-field, it would seem not to come through its history.
Built as a trading post for the Phoenicians and then by the Romans, under the name of Ruspina, Monastir become important once again in the 8th Century, with the building of its fortified Ribat, a sort of imposing monastery, intended as a defence against the sea faring invaders.
Today, despite its fortifications, visitors can enjoy unforgettable holidays in this haven of peace and serenity.
www.golfflamingo.com /deutsch/outdoor.htm   (183 words)

  
 monastir
Discover a charming town that was able to keep its original Muslim architecture and a way of life that could be described as the Tunisian version of “La Dolce Vita”!
But we do know its ancient name: Ruspina, the latin version of the Phoenician Rouss Pena.
Historians’ theories link today’s name to the word monastery, as it probably was a center for Christian prophecy in the region.
www.tunisianvacation.com /html/monastir.html   (203 words)

  
 Ruspina Hotel Monastir - Reviews & Official Contact Details
Ruspina Hotel Monastir - Reviews & Official Contact Details
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www.travel-library.com /hotels/africa/tunisia/monastir/ruspina_hotel.html   (118 words)

  
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Subject: DBM Ruspina refought - or Romanophobes' Revenge
In DBM the Ps flee, leaving the Lh to be killed by the
Subject: Re: DBM Ruspina refought - or Romanophobes' Revenge
tetrad.stanford.edu /battles/DBMRuspinarefought.html   (947 words)

  
 Friends, Romans . . . .
Let us have one last look at Fuller, and see how he concludes his dissertation on Caesar as a general:
were: at the battle of the Sambre, at the ambush near Dijon, and at the battles of Ruspina and Munda.
In each he revealed his astonishing ability to seize hold of a most desperate situation, and, through sheer force of will and faith in his own genius, transmute what to a normally able general would have been certain defeat into victory.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/354656   (227 words)

  
 Tunisia Locations List - Ru'us al Kalil to Ruspina
Tunisia Locations List - Ru'us al Kalil to Ruspina
/ Explore / Tunisia / Locations / R / Ru'us al Kalil to Ruspina
Locations in Tunisia begining with R - Ru'us al Kalil to Ruspina
www.traveljournals.net /explore/tunisia/locations/r/19.html   (87 words)

  
 SiteCritique.net: The Worlds #1 Website Reviewing Community - Ruspina Olive Oil
SiteCritique.net: The Worlds #1 Website Reviewing Community - Ruspina Olive Oil
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 De Bellis Multitudinis Historical Miniatures Game
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Plataea, Relief of the Camp, Ruspina scenario links updated
Plataea, Relief of the Camp, Ruspina scenario links
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