Rusippisir was a
Phoenician,
Carthaginian The term Carthaginian ( la, Carthaginiensis ) usually refers to a citizen of Ancient Carthage.
It can also refer to:
* Carthaginian (ship), a three-masted schooner built in 1921
* Insurgent privateers; nineteenth-century South American privateers, ...
, and
Roman town on
Algeria's
Mediterranean coast at the site of present-day
Taksebt.
Name
Rusippisir is the
latinization of the town's
Punic name, which probably meant "Cape
Rosemary".
[
]
Geography
Rusippisir was located at Cape Tedless (french: Cap Tedles), Algeria,[.] the site of present-day Taksebt in Tizi Ouzou.
History
Rusippisir was established as a colony on the trade route between Phoenicia and the Strait of Gibraltar
The Strait of Gibraltar ( ar, مضيق جبل طارق, Maḍīq Jabal Ṭāriq; es, Estrecho de Gibraltar, Archaic: Pillars of Hercules), also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Medi ...
. Its port was nearby Iomnium (present-day Tigzirt
Tigzirt, the classical Iomnium, is a small town on the coast of northeast Algeria in Tizi Ouzou Province. It has a sleepy demeanor and attracts many tourists especially in summer from all over the country.
Name
Tigzirt's name derives from the ...
). It later fell under Carthaginian The term Carthaginian ( la, Carthaginiensis ) usually refers to a citizen of Ancient Carthage.
It can also refer to:
* Carthaginian (ship), a three-masted schooner built in 1921
* Insurgent privateers; nineteenth-century South American privateers, ...
and then, after the Punic Wars
The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146BC fought between Roman Republic, Rome and Ancient Carthage, Carthage. Three conflicts between these states took place on both land and sea across the western Mediterranean region and i ...
, Roman hegemony. Punic stele
A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...
s in Rusippisir continued to be produced well into the imperial
Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism.
Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texa ...
period and there was tophet in the town.[
]
Religion
In antiquity
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Historical objects or periods Artifacts
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Eras
Any period before the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries) but still within the histo ...
, Rusippisir was the site of a Christian
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bishopric. This was revived in the 20th century as a Catholic titular see ( la, Dioecesis Rusubisiritana; it, Rusibisir).[.]
List of bishops
* Léon-Théobald Delaere, OFM Cap (1967.08.03 – 1976.09.14)
* Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1977.05.24 – 1981.11.19)
* Ivan Dias (1982.05.08 – 1996.11.08)
* Daniel Caro Borda (2000.07.21 – 2003.08.06)
* Martin David Holley (2004.05.18 – 2016.10.19)
* Mark E. Brennan
Mark Edward Brennan (born February 6, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia. He was installed on August 22, 2019. Brennan previously served as an auxiliary ...
(2017.01.19 - present)
References
Citations
Bibliography
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{{Phoenician colonies
Catholic titular sees in Africa
Phoenician colonies in Algeria