Chebika (الشبيكة) is a mountain oasis in western Tunisia, in Tozeur Governorate.

In antiquity, it was a Roman outpost known as Ad Speculum and later a mountain refuge of the Berber people. Ad Speculum was civitas[1] of the Roman Province of Africa between 30 BC and 640 AD.[2] Located on the Saharan limes just north of Ad Turres, it was a station on the road linking Tébessa and Gafsa.

The modern village of Chebika has several hundred residents. It was built near the old town, which was abandoned in 1969 after catastrophic flooding in which more than 400 people died. The site, writes Jean Duvignaud, "is located at the intersection of two projections of the mountain which opens here towards the desert".[3] The urban framework consists of a grid plan intersecting at the market place.

Many scenes for the film The English Patient were shot in the Chebika oasis landscape.

Chebika Waterfall 
Chebika Waterfall
Valley in Chebika Oasis 
Valley in Chebika Oasis
View of Chebika Oasis 
View of Chebika Oasis
Historic Village of Chebika 
Historic Village of Chebika
Natural Mineral Geodes in Chebika 
Natural Mineral Geodes in Chebika
Ibadi Mosque in the old village of Chebika 
Ibadi Mosque in the old village of Chebika
Looking from within Chebika oasis towards the entrance 
Looking from within Chebika oasis towards the entrance
Looking down on the village of Chebika 
Looking down on the village of Chebika
^ Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 34 F3 ^ E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Ad Speculum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2014 [accessed: 18 January 2017] ^ Jean Duvignaud, Chebika, sociological study, ed. (Gallimard, Paris, 1968) (ISBN 2259023274).
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