Semta was a Roman era Municipium also known as Augustum Semta in Africa Proconsularis that is tentatively identified with ruins at Henchir Zemba (Dzemda) Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2011 ). Carthage, Tunisia near the Oued el Kebir southwest of Zaghouan Barington Altas. at 36.269282, 9.887345.
Ruins The site has been excavated and those excavations revealed three different building complexes:Semta, Henchir Dzemda. a rectangular building, a high mausoleum and, two further buildings, one of which is called the Byzantine fortress, measuring . Numerous inscriptions have been found there.Louis Poinssot & Robert Lantier, Q. Geminius Sabinus, Princeps peregrinorum Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1923) Vol 67, Num 3 pp. 197-201.
Bishopric The ancient city was also the seat of an ancient bishopricSemta at catholic-hierarchy.org. in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.Semta at gcatholic.org (English)J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 63. Only two bishops are known from Semta. The Catholic Maggiorino attended the Council of Carthage (411), as at that time the city had no Donatist bishops. Florenzio took part in the anti-Monothelite Council of Carthage (646). The current bishop is Juan Gómez.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127.Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1955, Number 71.
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