Egnatia, Byzacena

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Egnatia, Byzacena is an ancient civitas of the Roman Province of Byzacena in North Africa. [1] [2] [3] [4] The exact location of the town is not known, but was in the Sahel region of Tunisia.

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<i>Civitas</i> Roman civil law

In the history of Rome, the Latin term civitas, according to Cicero in the time of the late Roman Republic, was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by law. It is the law that binds them together, giving them responsibilities (munera) on the one hand and rights of citizenship on the other. The agreement (concilium) has a life of its own, creating a res publica or "public entity", into which individuals are born or accepted, and from which they die or are ejected. The civitas is not just the collective body of all the citizens, it is the contract binding them all together, because each of them is a civis.

Byzacena was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.

The town was in ancient times the seat of an ancient Roman Catholic bishopric. [5] Today the bishopric survives as a titular Bishopric and the current bishop of the town is Dionisio Lachovicz [6] [7]

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Dionisio Lachovicz

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References

  1. ↑ Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ vol.1 (H.G. Bohn, 1845), p. 422.
  2. ↑ Antoine Godeau, Algemeine Kirchengeschichte (Rieger, 1771), p. 43.
  3. ↑ Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste, Vol. 8 (1734), p. 323.
  4. ↑ Robert Knaplock, The Works, Volume 1 (Robert Knaplock, 1726), p. 411.
  5. ↑ Handbook of ecclesiastical geography and statistics of times,of the apostles to the beginning of the sixteenth century Volume 1 (H. Schultze, 1846), p. 133.
  6. ↑ Egnatiensis.
  7. ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 184, Number 15,079
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