Editing Gabès (section)

=== Roman period ===
Gabès is the ancient ''Tacapae''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YnYjGTh88ZQC&pg=PA123 D. L. Bomgardner, ''Story of the Roman Amphitheatre''] (Routledge 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-13470739-3}}), p. 123</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rH26vL2CWbkC&pg=PA15 Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, ''The North African Stones Speak''] (UNC Press 2000 {{ISBN|978-0-80784942-2}}), p. 15</ref> or ''Tacape'' (Τακάπη in [[Ancient greek]]) or ''Tacapes''<ref>[http://www.trismegistos.org/place/17132 Trismegistos, "Tacapae"]</ref> of the [[Roman province]] of [[Tripolitania]].

[[Strabo]] refers to this city as an important entrepot of the [[Lesser Syrtis]]. [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (18.22) remarks that the waters of a copious fountain at Tacape were divided among the cultivators according to a system where each had the use of the water during a certain interval of time.

The {{Lang|la|[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]}} shows Tacape between [[Macomades]] and [[Sabratha]].