Aurusuliana was a
Roman Era
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city
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located in what was the
Roman Province of
Byzacena (
Roman North Africa
Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...
) and today modern
Tunisia. The exact site of the city remains unknown and a source of some controversy.
It is now generally considered to have been in
Tunisia, in the territory of
Henchir-Guennara Henchir-Guennara is a locality and Archaeological site in Tunisia 53.5 km southwest of Tunis,
Henchir-Guennara is nearby to Jebel ed Derijah, Jebel Ghaoues and Ksar Tyr. It is at 36° 37' 58" N, 9° 49' 42" E in the located in Gouvernorat ...
, but Bingham thought it in
Tripoli
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* Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece
* Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in ...
ana while others thought
Numidia
Numidia ( Berber: ''Inumiden''; 202–40 BC) was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians located in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up modern-day Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunis ...
.
100px, Balabuch 2008.The city was also the seat of an ancient
Christian
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Bishopric. and one Bishop Habettus is known from antiquity.
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The
diocese survives today as a
titular bishopric of the
Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is
Adam Bałabuch
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of
Poland.
See also
*
Kamal Hanna Bathish
References
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Roman towns and cities in Africa (Roman province)
