Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

Sufasar was a Roman town, one of many in

Roman North Africa Africa Proconsularis was a Roman province on the northern African coast that was established in 146 BC following the defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, ...

. Sufasar faded with the

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. The site has been tentatively identified with ruins at

Amourah Amourah is a town and Latin Catholic titular bishopric in Algeria. The commune lies in Djelfa Province. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 5,879. History Amaura corresponds to ancient Sufasar, a town in the Roman province of ...

in modern

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. Sufasar was also the

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, of an ancient bishopric, Metropolitan of Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). Its

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, Urbanus, was one of the Catholic bishops whom the

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Vandal The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century. The Vandals migrated to the area betw ...

king Huneric summoned to a conference in Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

Auguste Audollent Auguste Audollent (14 July 1864 – 7 April 1943) was a French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher, specialist of ancient Rome, in particular the magical inscriptions ('' tabellæ defixionum''). His main thesis was devoted to ''Roman Car ...

, v. ''Amaurensis'', i
''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''
vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 994-995

References

Archaeological sites in Algeria Catholic titular sees in Africa Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis Ancient Berber cities {{Algiers-geo-stub