Ksar Sbahi

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Ksar Sbahi
Commune and town
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Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
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CountryFlag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
Province Oum El Bouaghi Province
Population
 (1998)
  Total11,095
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)

Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

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According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095. [1]

History

A Punic coin of Gadiauphala with the legend 
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A Punic coin of Gadiauphala with the legend 𐤏𐤀 (ʿ ʾ)

Gadiaufala was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ?Cirta, but later faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

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References

  1. Statoids
  2. Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 886

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