sentences:  The Roman city is identified with ruins of Tajilt near Souk Ahras, Algeria.The Numidian city of Thagaste or Tagaste, on whose ruins Souk Ahras was built, was situated in the north-eastern highlands of Numidia.It was about from Hippo Regius, (present day Annaba), southwest of Thubursicum (present day Khamissa), and about from Carthage (on the coast of present-day Tunisia).