Thagora

Ancient city in Algeria
36°10′N 8°02′E / 36.167°N 8.033°E / 36.167; 8.033

Thagora was a Carthaginian and Roman town at what is now Taoura, Algeria.

Name

The Punic form of its name was TGRN (𐤕‬𐤂‬𐤓𐤍).[1] The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora.

History

Thagora was an inland trading post controlled by Carthage. It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) southeast of Hippo Regius.[1] It minted bronze coins with a bearded head obverse and a prancing horse beneath a star reverse.[1]

Under the Romans, it formed part of the province of Numidia.

Religion

Thagora was a Christian bishopric. The names of three of its diocesan bishops are known.[2] It fell into abeyance following the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived by the Roman Catholic Church as a titular see.[3]

List of bishops

  • Xanthippus, mentioned by Augustine of Hippo in 401
  • Postumianus, who participated in the Conference of Carthage (411)
  • Timotheus, twentieth in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Hunneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
  • John Baptist Cahill (1900)
  • Alexandre Piquemal (1909–1920)
  • Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (1920–1924)
  • Jozef Cársky (1925–1962)
  • Carlo Livraghi (1962–1975)
  • Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1975–1988)
  • Cipriano Calderón Polo (1988–2009)
  • Giuseppe Marciante (2009–)
  • Koen Vanhoutte (2018-)

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Head & al. (1911), p. 887.
  2. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 300
  3. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 981

Bibliography

  • Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 884–887.
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