Abitina

Abitina ( Avitina ; genitive Abitinae ) is the name of an ancient city that was in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (now northern Tunisia ).

Roman inscriptions are known from Abitina.

In late antiquity, the city was a bishopric, which was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Carthage ; the titular bishopric Abitinae goes back to this . For the martyrs of Abitinae, see Martyrs of the Holy Books .

literature

• Johannes Schmidt : Abitinae . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 101.
• Azedine Beschaouch: Sur la localization d'Abitina, la cité des célèbres martyrs africains . In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 1976, pp. 255-266 ( full text ).
• Claude Lepelley: Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire , Vol. 2, Paris 1981, pp. 56-57.
• Jehan Desanges, Noël Duval, Claude Lepelley and others a .: Carte des routes et des cités de l'est de l'Africa à la fin de l'Antiquité . (= Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive 17) Brepols, Turnhout 2010, ISBN 9782503513201 , pp. 90–91.

Web links

• Abitina (e) at Pleiades
• 19th century literature on Abitina at archive.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Epigraphic Database Heidelberg , epigraphy database Clauss / Slaby . Archived from the original on February 4, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2019 ..