Abora (city)

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Abora is the name of an ancient small town in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (now northern Tunisia ). The settlement with the bishop's seat , which cannot be precisely located , was assigned to the ecclesiastical province of Carthage ; the titular bishopric of Abora goes back to this .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See Ralph W. Mathisen: Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity, Volume 1997, Part 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 106.
  2. ↑ See Leo Teutsch: Römische Städtewesen in Nordafrika, Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 1962, p. 31.