Bouderies
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Bouderies is a settlement in Kasserine, Tunisia, in North Africa.[1]
The settlement is located on the Algerian border north of Fériana. It is the site of a natural spring,[2][3] and nearby Mount Jebel ech Chambi is, at 1,544 m, one of the highest points in Tunisia.
History
Ain Bou Dries is the site of Drua, a ruined Roman fort,[4] of the Roman province of Byzacena.
During
bishopric
.
[5][6]
Donatist delegation. The town survived until at least the Arab–Byzantine wars
of 698AD.
The 1st Armored Division of the United States Army passed through Bouderies during World War II.[8]
Today the
bishopric of Drua survives as a titular bishopric[9] with the current bishop being John Joseph Jenik, auxiliary bishop of New York City.[10]
References
- ^ Map of Aïne Bou Driès in Kasserine, Tunisia.
- ^ Bouderies at mapcarta.com.
- ^ Aïne Bou Driès at getamap.net.
- ^ Gamal Mokhtar, General History of Africa - Vol. II - Ancient Africa ( UNESCO, 2010) p553.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 152.
- ^ J. Ferron, v. Druensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 821.
- ^ George F Howe, United States Army in World War 2 - The Mediterranean -Northwest Africa. (Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014).
- ^ "Druas (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
- ^ diocese entry at www.gcatholic.org
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