Byzacena (or Byzacium) ( grc, Βυζάκιον, ''Byzakion'') was a Late
Roman province
The Roman provinces (Latin: ''provincia'', pl. ''provinciae'') were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was rule ...
Tunisia
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, map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa
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, capital = Tunis
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, split off from
Africa Proconsularis
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.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of
Africa Proconsularis
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into three smaller provinces: Zeugitana in the north, still governed by a proconsul and referred to as Proconsularis; Byzacena to its adjacent south, and
Tripolitania
Tripolitania ( ar, طرابلس '; ber, Ṭrables, script=Latn; from Vulgar Latin: , from la, Regio Tripolitana, from grc-gre, Τριπολιτάνια), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province o ...
to its adjacent south, roughly corresponding to southeast
Tunisia
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, capital = Tunis
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and northwest
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
. Byzacena corresponded roughly to eastern Tunisia or the modern Tunisian region of Sahel.
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the earl ...
(modern Sousse) became the capital of the newly made province, whose governor had the rank of ''
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''. At this period the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Byzacena was, after the great metropolis
Carthage
Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the cla ...
, the most important city in Roman (North) Africa west of
Egypt
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Ancient episcopal sees of Byzacena listed in the ''
Annuario Pontificio
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titular see
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Abaradira
Abaradira was a Roman era city in the Roman province of Byzacena. Its exact location is unknown but it would have been in the central part of what is today Tunisia.
Abaradira was also the seat of an ancient bishopric. Only one bishop is known fro ...
ruins
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Africa
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(Mahdia)
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Afufenia
Afufenia (also called ''Afufeniensis'') was a Roman era city in the province of Byzacena. Its exact location is unknown, but it would have been situated in central Tunisia.
Afufenia was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric. and was me ...
Aurusuliana Aurusuliana was a Roman Era city located in what was the Roman Province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa) 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 be ...
Bahanna Dhorbania, also known as ''Henchir Oued Nebhana'', is a village and locality in Tunisia. It's also the site of Ancient city and former bishopric Bahanna, now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Location
Dhorbania is in the Kairouan Governorate of Tuni ...
(Henchir-Nebahna, ruins at Dhorbania?)located at Latitude: 36.19392 - Longitude: 10.02064.
* Bararus (Henchir-Ronga, Rougga)
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Bassiana
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Bennefa
The Diocese of Bennefa ( la, Rite Bennefensis, link=no) is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.
Bennefa, identifiable with Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia, is an ancient civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena. and a s ...
(Oglet-Khefifa)
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Bladia Henchir-Baldia is an archaeological site and locality in southern Tunisia. The stone ruins are tentatively associated with Bladia, a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena during the Roman Empire. It was a Catholic bishopric.
Bladia was the seat ...
Cercina
Cercina () is a ''frazione'' (rural borough) of the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, central Italy, located on the slopes of Mount Morello
Monte Morello is the highest mountain (934 m.) in the Flore ...
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Kerkennah Islands
Kerkennah Islands ( aeb, قرقنة '; Ancient Greek: ''Κέρκιννα Cercinna''; Spanish:''Querquenes'') are a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, at . The Islands are low-lying, being no more than abo ...
Crepedula
Crepedula was an ancient Roman–Berber civitas in the province of Byzacena in Africa Proconsularis. It was located in modern Tunisia. The town was also the seat of a Catholic diocese.
There are three known bishops of this diocese.
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Drua
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Dura (Titular See)
Dura was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman North Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Dura was among the many cities in the Roman province of Byzacena that became a suffragan diocese. Its precise Roman location, in ...
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Edistiana Edistiana was an ancient Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity of Byzacena. It was located in the modern Tunisia. It was a former Catholic diocese.
Edistiana was a titular bishopric of the Roman C ...
Febiana {{unreferenced, date=July 2017
Febiana was city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa, which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
Febina, in present-day Tunisia, was among the many cities of sufficient importance in the Roman ...
Gummi in Byzacena {{refimprove, date=February 2017
Gummi in Byzacena was a city and bishopric in Roman Africa, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
History
The city, in modern Tunisia, presumed near modern Henchir-Gelama or Henchir-El-Senem, was important ...
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum, also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the earl ...
Kairouan
Kairouan (, ), also spelled El Qayrawān or Kairwan ( ar, ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, al-Qayrawān , aeb, script=Latn, Qeirwān ), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city was founded by t ...
Leptiminus
Lemta, historically Leptiminus, is a town in Tunisia with a history going back over 3,000 years.
History
The history of the town starts in the 13th century b.c.e. with the founding attributed to Phoenician sailors.
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Limisa
Limisa (today Aïn-Lemsa) is a town and archaeological site in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia. It is located 50 kilometers west of kairouan. The town was a Roman Catholic diocese.
The street pattern of the village is fairly regular in its layout a ...
Marazanae Marazanae was a civitas, Roman town of the Roman province of Byzacena during the Roman Empire and into late antiquity. Location
The town was between Sufes and Aquae Regiae.
The ruins at Henchir-Guennara, (Tunisia) dating from the Roman Empire are ...
Sfax
Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Berber Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterrane ...
Munatiana Munatiana was an ancient Roman- Berber civitas located in the province of Byzacena in the present-day Sahel region of Tunisia. The former town was also the seat of an old Christian diocese, which remains a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic ...
Nara
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Sullectum
Salakta is a small Tunisian village situated by the sea.
Salakta has been occupied or ruled by many civilisations, including the Phoenicians, Byzantines, Romans, and Muslim Oubéidines. The attractions include a beach, catacombs, an ancient cem ...
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Tambeae
Tambeae was a Roman civitas located in the province of Byzacena in Africa Proconsulare. It existed from the Roman era into late antiquity.
Bishopric
Tambeae must have been of some importance as it was the seat of an ancient Christian diocese whi ...
Taparura
Taparura was an ancient Berber, Punic and Roman city in the location of modern-day Sfax, Tunisia. It was a former Catholic diocese.
The same ancient name was revived in the 1980s as a coastal urban development project on the location of former che ...
Thapsus
Thapsus, also known as Tampsus and as Thapsus Minor to distinguish it from Thapsus in Sicily, was a Carthaginian and Roman port near present-day Bekalta, Tunisia.
Geography
Thapsus was established on Ras ed-Dimas, an easily defended promontory ...
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Thasbalta
Thasbalta was a city and Catholic diocese in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis during the Roman Empire and of Byzacena during late antiquity.
The exact location of this city is unknown but it was in the Oued es Segui river valley, north o ...
(in the valley of Segui?)
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Thelepte
Thelepte ( ber, تلابت) was a city in the Roman province of Byzacena, now in western Tunisia. It is located near the border with Algeria about 5 km north from the modern town of Fériana and 30 km south-west of the provincial capital ...
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Thenae
Thenae or Thenai ( grc, Θεναί), also written Thaena and Thaenae, was a Carthaginian and Roman town (') located in or near Thyna, now a suburb of Sfax on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Tunisia.
Name
The city was founded with the ...
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Thyna
Thyna, formerly Henchir-Tina, is a town and commune in the Sfax Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 26,635.Theuzi Theuzi is a former ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and present Latin Catholic titular see.
Its modern location is unclear, but is believed to have been somewhere in present Tunisia.
History
Aquae Novae was important enough in the Rom ...
Tiguala Tiguala was an ancient Roman-Berber city in the province of Byzacena. The exact location of the town remains unknown for certain, but it was in Sahel in northern Tunisia.
Bishopric
Tiguala was also the seat of an ancient diocese, which remains a ti ...
Victoriana
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Mahdia
Mahdia ( ar, المهدية ') is a Tunisian coastal city with 62,189 inhabitants, south of Monastir and southeast of Sousse.
Mahdia is a provincial centre north of Sfax. It is important for the associated fish-processing industry, as well as w ...
List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
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List of Catholic titular sees
This is the official list of titular sees of the Catholic Church included in the ''Annuario Pontificio''. Archiepiscopal sees are shown in bold.
The Italian-language ''Annuario Pontificio'' devotes some 200 pages to listing these sees, with up ...