Kelibia (pop. 20,000), 13km/8mi south of Kerkouane, is now an important fishing port and the agricultural market center for the northern part of the peninsula. This was probably also a Punic foundation. In 309 B.C. it was taken by Agathocles of Syracuse and renamed Aspis (the "Shield"). In 255 B.C., during the First Punic War, it was captured by
the Roman consul, Regulus, and 110 years later, during the Third Punic War, it was razed to the ground. Later the town was rebuilt by the Romans under the name of Clupea.
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