Aurusuliana

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

The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, [4] and one bishop, Habettus, is known from antiquity. [5]

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.