Aurusuliana Explained

Aurusuliana was a Roman Era city located in what was the Roman Province of Byzacena (Roman North Africa) and today modern Tunisia. The exact site of the city remains unknown and a source of some controversy.It is now generally considered to have been in Tunisia, in the territory of Henchir-Guennara, but Bingham thought it in Tripoliana^[1] while others thought Numidia.^{[2] [3]}

100px|right|Balabuch 2008.The city was also the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric.^[4] and one Bishop Habettus is known from antiquity.^[5] The diocese survives today as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Adam Bałabuch of Poland.

See also

• Kamal Hanna Bathish

Notes and References

1. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (1840) p233.
2. Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. Volume 3 (1819).
3. François Morenas, Portable Historical Dictionary of Sacred Geography (1759). p115.
4. Joseph Bingham, Origines ecclesiasticae, Volume 3 (1840) p233.
5. Historical-political-geographic atlas of the whole world; Or Large and complete geographical and Critisches Lexicon (Heinsius, 1744). p1825.