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Thimida Regia is a former Roman
'Thimida Regia: a Pleiades place resource
, ''Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places'', 2012. south of the modern town of Tunis.
Thimida Regia is a former Roman 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 the Roman province of Byzacena in North Africa (modern Tunisia). The town was the episcopal see
An episcopal see is, in a practical use of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...
of an ancient Christian diocese which flourished until the arrival of Arab armies in the 640s. That diocese survives today only as a Latin Church titular see of the Catholic Church, and has effectively ceased to function.
The current bishop is Florencio Armando Colín Cruz of Mexico.
The ancient town is identified with ruins at 36.640739n, 10.141835e,R. B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies'Thimida Regia: a Pleiades place resource
, ''Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places'', 2012. south of the modern town of Tunis.
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Byzacena {{coord, 36.640739, 10.141835, type:landmark_region:TN, display=title