N'Gaous ( la, Nicives, link=no) is an ancient town in northeastern
Algeria,
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
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
of
Nicives. Located in the late
Roman province of
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 ...
, and which flourished through the
Vandal Kingdom and
Roman Empire into
late antiquity.
Nicives was deemed important enough to serve for a period as a
suffragan
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdictiona ...
bishopric.
[Stefano Antonio Morcelli]
''Africa christiana''
Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 243.
In the
Middle Ages the town was praised by travelers and noted for its nuts,
apricot
An apricot (, ) is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus ''Prunus''.
Usually, an apricot is from the species '' P. armeniaca'', but the fruits of the other species in ''Prunus'' sect. ''Armeniaca'' are also ...
orchards and
olive trees. 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
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Eras
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N'Gaous was the
seat
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of a Christian
bishopric which is presently a
Roman Catholic titular see. Although it ceased to function with the
Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century, the
diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a
titular bishopric.
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
The Royal, Celestial and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy and the Redemption of the Captives ( la, Ordo Beatae Mariae de Mercede Redemptionis Captivorum, abbreviated O. de M.), also known as the Mercedarians, is a Catholic mendicant order es ...
(O. de M.) (1971.07.14 – 1976.03.24), as Auxiliary Bishop of then
Territorial Prelature of Bom Jesus do Piauí (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 (USA)
Sources and external links
GCatholic, with titular incumbent bio link
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Communes of Batna Province