Sousse , is a city of Tunisia. Located 140 km south of Tunis. <br /> It is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.In the 11th century B.C., the Phoenicians founded Hadrumetum. The city allied itself with Rome during the Punic Wars, thereby escaping damage or ruin and entered a relatively peaceful 700-year period under Pax Romana. Livy tells us that Hadrumentum was the landing place of the Roman army under Scipio Africanus in the second Punic War. <br /><br />After the fall of Rome, the Vandals, and later the Byzantines, took over the town, renaming it, respectively, Hunerikopolis and Justinianopolis.
