Elephantaria in Mauretania was an ancient city in the Maghreb during the Roman, Byzantine and Vandal empires.[1][2] It is shown on the Peutinger Table map.[3]
Today, the city exists only as unexcavated ruins at Henchir, a suburb of Algiers, and a titular see in the Mauretania Caesariensis province of the Roman Catholic Church. Until 2020 the title was held by Angelo Moreschi, of Ethiopia.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Bettoni, Africa Christiana: in tres partes tributa (ex officina Bettoniana, 1816) page 154.
- ^ August Pauly, Real-encyclopedia of the class. Alterthumswissenschaften in alphabetical order, Volume 3 (Metzler, 1844) page 78.
- ^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830–1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014) page 118.
- ^ Titular Episcopal See of Elephantaria in Mauretania.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013.
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