Henchir-Merelma is a locality and archaeological site in the Mahdia Governorate of Tunisia.
The ruins at Henchir-Merelma are near the Cherita River and Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes and date from the time of the Roman Empire and is tentatively identified with Aelioe Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques (1900) p126. a civitas of the Roman Province of Byzacena.
According to the Antonine Itinerary, Aeliae was on the Roman Road from Althiburos To Thysdrus.Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Algiers, 1951.Itinéraire d'Antonin, éd. d'O. Cuntz, Leipzig, 1929 (1990 ).Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949). Ruins at Ksour-el-Maïete tentatively identified with Germaniciana Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques (1900) p126. and Henchir-Bir-El-Menadla would indicate a series of way stations and accord with the description in the Antonine Itinerary. References