Douela

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Douela or Douala is a village and locality in Tunisia, situated on the Mediterranean coast at latitude 36.8167°, longitude 10.5667° (37km east of Tunis) and near Sīdī `Ammār, [1] Korbous, and El Bredj. [2]

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Locality

Douela lies on the Cap Bon peninsula surrounded by the Qorbus Forest, the area especially the thermal springs at nearby Korbous have been popular as a health resort since Roman times.

History

During the Roman Empire and late antiquity the village of Douela was a town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The site has revealed numerous inscription in the ruins of the Roman town [3] which tell us the Ancient town was a civitas known as Mizigitanorum.

Roman Empire Period of Imperial Rome following the Roman Republic (27 BC–395 AD)

The Roman Empire was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization. An Iron Age civilization, it had a government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. From the constitutional reforms of Augustus to the military anarchy of the third century, the Empire was a principate ruled from the city of Rome. The Roman Empire was then divided between a Western Roman Empire, based in Milan and later Ravenna, and an Eastern Roman Empire, based in Nicomedia and later Constantinople, and it was ruled by multiple emperors.

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In antiquity, Douela was also the seat of a Christian bishopric known as Mizigi. [4] [5] [6] This diocese remains today a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. [7] [8] Only two bishops of ancient Douela (Mizigi) are known.

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References

  1. ↑ Traveling Luck for Jabal Douela, Tunisia.
  2. ↑ Douala at mapcarta.com.
  3. ↑ Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p285–288.
  4. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231.
  6. ↑ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 59.
  7. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Mizigi.
  8. ↑ Mizigi in catholic-hierarchy.org
  9. ↑ Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p287.
  10. ↑ Mosquée Al Rahma Douela.
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