Buruni (North Africa)
Buruni is an ancient city of the Maghreb, in North Africa. The city has been identified with ruins at Henchir-El-Dakhla in Tunisia.
History
Buruni, was an ancient
status.The Bagradis valley became Roman after the Third Punic War about 146BC[2] and it quickly became an important region for agriculture,[3] with the rolling plains home to numerous Imperial estates. The area around Buruni fell to the
The area was held by Byzantium until the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the end of the 7th century.
Saltus Burunitanus
The saltus burunitanus (CIL VIII 10570 = ILS 6870) is an ancient Roman era document. The document is a letter of reply from emperor Commodus regarding a complain by a group of peasants on an imperial estate in Buruni complaining of maltreatment by the estate manager.[4][5] One Lurius Lucullus, wrote on behalf of the peasants that the procurator of the estate had arrested and flogged some of the workers even those who were
The document names one official Allius Maximus,
Bishopric
Today the diocese of Buruni survives as titular see of the Catholic Church.[11][12] The current bishop is Daniele Libanori.
Known bishops
- Fausto † (mentioned in the 5th century)
- Pius Anthony Benincasa (8 May 1964 – 13 August 1986)
- Ernesto Antolin Salgado (17 October 1986 –7 December 2000)
- Ismael Rueda Sierra (20 December 2000 – 27 June 2003)
- Anthony Fisher, O.P. (16 June 2003 – 8 January 2010)
- Raphael Thattil (15 January 2010 – 10 October 2017)
- Daniele Libanori, S.J. (since 23 November 2017).
See also
References
- ^ Carte des routes et des cités de l'est de l'Africa à la fin de l'Antiquité, 2010, p. 202-203.
- ^ Appian, Punica 112.
- ^ Dennis P. Kehoe, The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) p.7.
- ^ John Weisweiler, "rammars of Government in the Imperial Estate of Saltus Burunitanus".
- ^ Denis Kehoe, Decretum de saltu Burunitano. (The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012).
- ^ Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 1995) p162.
- ^ Dennis P. Kehoe, The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) p80.
- ^ Jerzy Kolendo, The colonists in Africa under the Early Empire, Volume 447 (Presses Univ. Franche-Comté ,1991) p69.
- ^ Dennis P. Kehoe, The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988) p28.
- ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p.49.
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p.464.
- ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa Christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p.110.