Thimida Regia is a former
Roman
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city
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of the
Roman province
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of
Byzacena
Byzacena (or Byzacium) (, ''Byzakion'') was a Late Roman province in the central part of Roman North Africa, which is now roughly Tunisia, split off from Africa Proconsularis.
History
At the end of the 3rd century AD, the Roman emperor Dioclet ...
in North Africa (modern
Tunisia
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). The town was the
episcopal see
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of an ancient Christian
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...
which flourished until the arrival of Arab armies in the 640s. That diocese survives today only as a
Latin Church
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titular see
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of the
Catholic Church
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, and has effectively ceased to function. The current bishop is
Dominic Nguyên Tuan Anh auxiliary bishop of
Roman Catholic Diocese of Xuân Lộc
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Its cathedral episcopal see i ...
.
The ancient town is identified with ruins at 36.640739n, 10.141835e,
[R. B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies]
'Thimida Regia: a Pleiades place resource
, ''Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places'', 2012. south of the modern town of
Tunis
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.
References
Byzacena
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