Thucca was a town in the

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 ...

Mauretania Sitifensis Mauretania Sitifensis was a Roman province in Northwest Africa. The capital was Setifis. History In the later division of the Roman Empire under the Emperor Diocletian, the eastern part of Mauretania Caesariensis, from Saldae to the river Ampsa ...

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describes it as "impositum mari et flumini Ampsagae" (overlooking the sea and the River Ampsaga), and thus on the border with

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 ...

.Stefano Antonio Morcelli
''Africa christiana''
Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 316 Its site is now occupied by the ruins of Merdja in present-day

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The town is referred to as Thucca in Mauretania to distinguish it from Thucca in Numidia, which is today Henchir-El-Abiodh, further east in Algeria. Both towns became Christian bishoprics and are included in the

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's list of

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s.''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), p. 999 The names of two of the bishops of Thucca in Mauretania are known: * Honoratus, who spoke at the

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; * Uzulus, one of the Catholic bishops that Huneric summoned to the Council of Carthage (484) and then exiled.

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