Zuccabar

Coordinates: 36°15′57″N 2°17′50″E / 36.26583°N 2.29722°E / 36.26583; 2.29722
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36°15′57″N 2°17′50″E / 36.26583°N 2.29722°E / 36.26583; 2.29722

Zuccabar
Caesarea of Mauretania
Zuccabar is located in Algeria
Zuccabar
Shown within Algeria
LocationAlgeria
RegionAïn Defla Province
Coordinates36°15′57″N 2°17′50″E / 36.265833°N 2.297222°E / 36.265833; 2.297222

Zuccabar (or Zucchabar) was an ancient town in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It is located in present-day Miliana, Algeria.

History

Zuccabar was constituted as a Roman colony (Colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar) under the Emperor Augustus.

Indeed, actual

Punic origin known in Roman times as "Zucchabar" (or even "Succhabar"). Under Augustus, it was given the rank of colonia and was thus referred to as Colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar.[3] The Greek form of the name used by the geographer Ptolemy was Ζουχάββαρι (Zuchabbari).[4] Pliny the Elder calls it "the colony of Augusta, also called Succabar",[5] and Ammianus Marcellinus gives it the name Sugabarri or (in adjectival form) Sugabarritanum.[6][7][8]

Zuccabar belonged to the

romanised berbers
).

Zucchabar became a Christian episcopal see in the fourth century. The names of two of its Catholic bishops and one Donatist are recorded:[9]

  • Maximianus, who attended the
    Conference of Carthage (411)
    ;
    • Germanus, the Donatist bishop who attended the same conference;
  • Stephanus, one of the Catholic bishops whom
    a meeting in Carthage in February 484
    and then exiled.

The bishopric is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[10] In late antiquity it was an episcopal see that has been "born again" as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church since 1967.

Miliana was (re)founded in the 10th century by Buluggin ibn Ziri on the site of the ancient Roman city of Zuccabar (or "Succhabar").

Trivia

In the movie Gladiator by Ridley Scott, Zucchabar is fictitiously introduced as the name of a Roman province (rather than a town), when Maximus is brought south of his homeland Hispania into an arid and desert land, after having been enslaved by merchants.[11] It is also in this province that he meets Proximo.[12][13]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Huß, Werner (Bamberg) (October 2006). "Succhabar". Brill's New Pauly.
  2. ^ a b Miliana ville historique Archived March 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Zucchabar: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
  4. ^ Ptolemy, Book 4, chapter 2 (page 95 in the translation by Edward Luther Stevenson (New York, 1932)) Archived March 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b Pliny, Natural Histories, book 5, chapter 1
  6. ^ Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History, XXIX, V, 25 and 20
  7. ISBN 978-90-0426787-9
    ), p. 179
  8. ^ George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time (T. Osborne 1748), p. 313
  9. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 371
  10. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1
    ), p. 1013
  11. ISBN 9781317425878
    .
  12. ISBN 9780753547083
    .
  13. ISBN 9781118589816
    .

Bibliography

See also

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