It is located at 35°25'60" N and 10°16'0" E between Dahmani and El Djem, at an elevation of 61 meters above sea level.
[1] The site is near the Cherita and Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes, and south of Kairouan.
The ruins at Menadla date from the Roman Empire and are tentatively identified as a station on the Roman Road from Althiburos(Dahmani) To Thysdrus(El Djem) called Terento,[4] though there is a suggestion the town was named Forontoniana,[5] has also be proposed.
[6] The town appears on the Tabula Peutingeria, and according to the Antonine Itinerary it was on the Roman Road from Althiburos To Thysdrus.
If these tentatively identifications are correct it would confirm the Antonine Itinerary description of them being way stations on the limes Africana Road.