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Abbir Maius

April 23, 2023

Abbir Maius also known as Abbiritanus was a Roman and Byzantine-era civitas (city), later municipium, in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia).[1][2]

Location

The town is identified through inscriptions[3][4] with ruins near Henchir el Khandaq in Zaghouan Governorate (latitude 36.374, longitude 10.008826 ). This is near the village of Bir Halima between El Fahs and Zaghouan.[5] In Roman times this would have placed the city in the bread basket Medjerda River Valley, south of Carthage.

Facilities

The city had an aqueduct,[6] completed by procurator Q. Geminius Faustus[7] and bath house.[8] And,[4][9] like Thignica, was a civitas dependent of Carthage but under the emperor Caracalla was promoted to be a municipium.[10]

Bishopric

The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage. The only known Bishop of antiquity was Felix fl436-484, who was bishop of the town for 44 years and sent into exile under the Vandals.[11]

Although the bishopric ceased to effectively function at the end of the 7th century with the arrival of the Islamic armies, Titular Bishops have been be appointed to the diocese since the beginning of the 20th century. The bishop presently assigned to the Titular See is Michael Andrew Gielen, Auxiliary Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Auckland, appointed in January 2020.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ R. B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott and S. Gillies 'Abbir Maius: a resource site Pleiades' Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Places Past, 2012 [accessed 03 December 2016].
  2. ^ Africa, The Epigraphic Year 1979 (1982), p. 205-215.
  3. ^ Poinssot, Louis Inscriptions de Suo et de Maxula Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, / Année 1936 / Volume 80 / Numéro 4 / pp. 280-287.
  4. ^ a b A. Beschaouch, La découverte d'Abbir Maius, municipe de Caracalla en Afrique Proconsulaire, BSAF 1974, 1979, p118-123
  5. ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org.
  6. ^ A. Bel Faïda, "Les aqueducs de l'Afrique Romaine. Le dossier épigraphique", in: V. Bridoux (Hrsg.), Contrôle et distribution de l'eau dans le Maghreb antique et médiéval (Rom 2009) p136.
  7. ^ Faida 2009, 136
  8. ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p343.
  9. ^ Verkaouch 1991, p137-144.
  10. ^ Ségolène Demougin, H.-G. Pflaum, a historian of the twentieth century: proceedings of the international conference in Paris on 21, 22 and October 23, 2004.
  11. ^ Victor (Santo), John Moorhead, History of the Vandal Persecution by Victor of Vita (Liverpool University Press, 1992) p33.
  12. ^ Abbir Maius at catholic-hierarchy.org.

Coordinates: 36°22′26″N 10°00′32″E / 36.374°N 10.009°E / 36.374; 10.009

April 23, 2023
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