Abba (Tunisia)
Abba ( Greek Ἀββα ; Latin Obba ) was an ancient Carthaginian city in North Africa . It was in the later Roman province of Africa proconsularis .
In 203 BC BC, towards the end of the Second Punic War , the West Numid king Syphax fled to Abba after his camp at Utica was set on fire by his rivals Massinissa and Gaius Laelius, who were fighting on the Roman side, and thereby destroyed. At the same time the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal withdrew to Anda , about eight miles from Abba .
The exact location of Abba is unknown. In the opinion of the ancient historian Werner Huss , who refers to the Polybios commentary by Frank W. Walbank , the ancient place is most likely to be identified with today's places Henchir Bou Djaoua or Henchir Merkeb-en-Nabi .
Today's titular bishopric Obba of the Roman Catholic Church is based on the diocese in Abba or Obba .
literature
- Johannes Schmidt : Abba . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 21.
- Werner Huss : Abba. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 9.
Remarks
- ↑ Polybios , Historíai 14, 6, 12 and 14, 7, 5; Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 30, 7, 10.
- ↑ Werner Huss: Abba. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 9.