Tucca

Tucca ( Greek  Τοῦκκα ), also Thucca , was the name of several ancient cities in North Africa:

• Tucca (Mauritania) , in Mauretania Caesariensis
  • Thucca in Mauretania , titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church that goes back to a diocese of this city
• Tucca (Numidia)
  • Thucca in Numidia (Italian: Tucca di Numidia), titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church that goes back to a diocese of this city
• Thucca Terebenthina , city in the province of Africa
  • Titular diocese Thucca Terebenthina (Italian: Tucca Terebentina), titular diocese of the Roman Catholic Church that goes back to a diocese of this city

Tucca is also a Roman cognomen of Etruscan origin. Well-known bearers of the name were:

• Gaius Servilius Tucca , Roman statesman in the first third of the 3rd century BC Chr.
• Plotius Tucca (1st century BC), friend of Virgil and, together with Lucius Varius Rufus, editor of the Aeneid

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.