Aurusuliana

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Aurusuliana was a Roman Era city located in what was the Roman Province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa) and today modern Tunisia. The exact site of the city remains unknown and a source of some controversy. It is now generally considered to have been in Tunisia, in the territory of Henchir-Guennara, but Bingham thought it in Tripoliana [1] while others thought Numidia. [2] [3]

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The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric. [4] and one Bishop Habettus is known from antiquity. [5] The diocese survives today as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Adam Bałabuch of Poland.

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References

  1. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (1840) p233.
  2. Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Volume 3 (1819).
  3. François Morenas , Portable Historical Dictionary of Sacred Geography (1759).p115.
  4. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (1840) p233.
  5. Historical-political-geographic atlas of the whole world; Or Large and complete geographical and Critisches Lexicon (Heinsius, 1744).p1825.