Turris Tamalleni was a

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, dating from the

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inian,

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and

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era.

Geography

The town was west of Tacapes and South of Capsa. It is located on the oasis of Mansura, 1.5 kilometers from Telmine and 7.5 kilometers from Kebili.

History

Turris Tamalleni

was founded before

, when the Nybgenii Tribe established a fortified granary and a fortified residence for the tribal head. It was renamed in the 1st century C. Civitas Nybgenorium, and remained the center of the Nybgenii Tribe and the name ''Turres'' being probably the indigenous name. It was originally a fort on the Roman Limes, and linked by Roman Road under

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. Later it became a

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under Hadrian(about 105AD) taking the name Turris Tamalleni. It is mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary on the road on the borders of Tripoli and

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. During the latter Roman era it was a Bishop's seat and a center of resistance of the

Almoravid The Almoravid dynasty ( ar, المرابطون, translit=Al-Murābiṭūn, lit=those from the ribats) was an imperial Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that ...

s. The city was taken and destroyed by the

Almohad The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fou ...

s in 1205 AD. An

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town called Torrah or telmin was built from the rubble of the Roman town and is identified as runs at ruins of Oum-Es-Samâa. Today, nothing remains of the ancient city. All that remains of the ancient town is two large irrigation basins separated by a wall, which were restored in 1780 by the

Bey of Tunis Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is ...

, they form a lake of one

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Bishopric

The

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founded in the fourth century ceased to function with the arrival of the Arab forces, but remains a

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of the

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. Turris Tamalleni
at GCatholic.org. The current

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is Linus Lee Seong-hyo, auxiliary bishop of Suwon.

Bishops

* Gaudenzio assisted the Carthaginian council called by Grato in 349. * At the Carthage conference of 411, which saw the Catholic and Donatist bishops of Roman Africa gathered together, the Catholic Sabratius and the

Donatist Donatism was a Christian sect leading to a schism in the Church, in the region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and the ...

Jurata represented the city. *Habetdeum intervened at the synod gathered in Carthage by

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the

king in 484, after which Habetdeum was exiled. *Pentasio attended the antimonotelite council of 641. * Thomas Keogh (25 Sep 1967 Appointed - 22 May 1969) * Francis John Dunn (1 Jun 1969 Appointed - 17 Nov 1989) *Alphonse Liguori Chaupa (24 Jun 2000 Appointed - 4 Jul 2003) *Paul Ponen Kubi, (24 Dec 2003 Appointed - 15 Jul 2006) *Damián Santiago Bitar (4 Oct 2008 Appointed - 26 Oct 2010 ) * Linus Lee Seong-hyo (7 Feb 2011 Appointed - )

References

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