N'Gaous ( la, Nicives, link=no) is an ancient town in northeastern
Algeria
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The city of N'Gaous is a city located southwest of the state of Batna, an area of 80.45 km, rising 770 meters above sea level, in a beautiful place among the strings of the Oras, with a is the westward and eastward terrain aspect. It is surrounded by the green areas, surrounded in the north-west by the
Qatian Mountains, which have as their highest peak the summit of Ticherrit.
To the east is the city of Ain al-Touta and the peak at 2176 meters called: Rifaa.
The city celebrates the apricot festival on 19 June each year. It is famous for making apricot juice.
Facilities
The city has access to most public facilities, ranging from postal and transportation services, health centers, sports hall to multi-sports, and many interests can not be summarized on this page, although we do not forget the means of transport available, whether local or the city and others.
Climate
The lowest temperature recorded in a mountain was estimated at 7 °C below zero, in the winter of 1917, and the maximum temperature recorded in the summer of 1996, which reached 45 °C, and if we moved to the climatic factor, we find that the largest amount of rain known between the period from 1913 to 1973.
N'Gaous has cold and rainy winters and heat and drought in the summer, indeed the coldness is mentioned by ancient historians.
History
Although of great antiquity, N'Gaous has not received much historical attention.
N'Gaous is the site of the
ancient city
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of
Nicives Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia .
History
The town was the seat of a late antiquity Christian bishopric There are three bishops known from Niceives.
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. Located in the late
Roman province
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of
Numidia, and which flourished through the
Vandal Kingdom and
Roman Empire
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into
late antiquity
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.
Nicives Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia .
History
The town was the seat of a late antiquity Christian bishopric There are three bishops known from Niceives.
*At th ...
was deemed important enough to serve for a period as a
suffragan bishopric
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
.
[Stefano Antonio Morcelli]
''Africa christiana''
Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 243.
In the
Middle Ages
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the town was praised by travelers and noted for its nuts,
apricot orchard
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s and
olive tree
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s. Still known for its fruit, it has become center for it production since the introduction of abundant water, and the orchards, and this is contained in some travel books.
Titular see
In
Antiquity N'Gaous was the
seat of a Christian
bishopric
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
which is presently a
Roman Catholic
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
* Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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titular see
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. Although it ceased to function with the
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb
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in the 7th century, the
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
was nominally restored in 1933 as a
titular bishopric
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.
It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting episcopal (lowest) rank:
* Angelo Félix Mugnol (1966.02.07 – 1969.01.15)
* Guillermo Escobar Vélez (1969.07.28 – 1971.01.22)
* Abel Alonso Núñez,
Mercedarians
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(O. de M.) (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24), as Auxiliary Bishop of then
Territorial Prelature of Bom Jesus do Piauí
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(Brazil) (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24), later Bishop of
Campo Maior (Brazil) (1976.03.24 – retired 2000.02.02)
* Stanley Joseph Ott (1976.05.24 – 1983.01.13)
* José Mário Stroeher (1983.03.25 – 1986.08.08)
* William Jerome McCormack (1986.12.23 – 2013.11.23)
* Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski (2014.02.11 – ...), Auxiliary Bishop of
Rockville Centre
Rockville Centre, commonly abbreviated as RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 24,023 at the 2010 census.
Histo ...
(USA)
Sources and external links
GCatholic, with titular incumbent bio link
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Communes of Batna Province