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Germaniciana
Abbir Germaniciana also known as Abir Cella is the name of a Roman and Byzantine-era city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia). The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage, and is best known as the home town of the Pre Nicaean father, Cyprian, who was bishop of Abbir Germaniciana around 250AD. Location The location of Abbir Germaniciana is unknown but: * Adolf Harnack suggests it may have been near Membressa, in the Medjerda River Valley. *Today Henchir el Naam, a location west of El Fahs and north of Theveste near lake Sebkhet el Kourzia, has support as the location of Abbir Maius. This would place the city on the Meliane Wadi. *Others, citing Roman sources, claim in the vicinity of Theveste, as Abbir Germaniciana is mentioned by the '' Geographer of Ravenna'' as just ''the Germana'', and Antonine Itinerary as '' Ad Germani'', and both authors place it in the vicinity of Theveste. Whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksour-el-Maïete
Ksour-el-Maïete is a set of ruins in Tunisia near the Cherita and the Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes. The ruins date from the Roman Empire and are tentatively identified as a station on the Roman Road from Althiburos To Thysdrus. According to one interpretation of the Antonine Itinerary,''Itinéraire d'Antonin'', éd. d'O. Cuntz, ( Leipzig, 1929) (1990 ). and Pierre Salama, ''Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord'', Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949). it is the site known in the Roman era as Germaniciana Abbir Germaniciana also known as Abir Cella is the name of a Roman and Byzantine-era city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia). The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of .... References {{coord missing, Tunisia Roman towns and cities in Tunisia Sousse Governorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa Proconsularis SPQR
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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