Sufasar

Sufasar was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis . The city is located near today's Amoura (French: Dollfusville) in Algeria on a road from Caesarea ( Cherchell ) to Auzia ( Sour El-Ghozlane ).

Sufasar was a bishopric in late antiquity , bishops are mentioned in 411 and 484; the titular diocese of Sufasar goes back to this.

literature

• Hermann Dessau : Sufasar . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV A, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Sp. 642.
• Philippe Leveau : Sufasar, municipe de Maurétanie césarienne (Amoura-Oued Chorfa). In: Antiquités africaines 14, 1979, pp. 135-153 online .

Web links

• Location of Sufasar
• Latin inscriptions from Sufasar

Coordinates: 36 ° 11 ′ 47.1 "  N , 2 ° 30 ′ 34.8"  E