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Quiza (
Ancient Greek : Κούϊζα ) also known as Vuiza (Βούϊζα),
[1] which
Pliny the Elder called Quiza Xenitana ,
[nb 1] was a
Roman –
Berber
colonia , located in the former
province of
Mauretania Caesariensis . The town is identified with ruins at
Sidi Bellater ,
Algiers .
History
Quiza was originally a small Berber village, with Phoenician roots. It grew under the Roman empire. Around 120 AD, the emperor
Hadrian erected an
arch in the city.
William Smith identified Quiza with Giza near
Oran, Algeria in his work,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography .
[2] More recent investigations have identified it with present-day El-Benian on the coast road between Mostaga and Dara.
[3]
[4]
[5]
In his Natural History , 4.2.3., Pliny the Elder: writes: "Next to this is Quiza Xenitana, a town founded by strangers"; a remark explained because the word Xenitana is derived from
Greek ξένος, "a stranger",
[6] as explained also by
Victor Vitensis .
[7] The town is mentioned also by
Pliny elsewhere (5.2), by
Ptolemy , and by
Pomponius Mela .
[2]
Bishopric
Quiza is also a
titular see of Christianity. Quaestoriana was in the ecclesiastical province of
Byzacena .
[8]
At the
Council of Carthage (411) , which brought together
Catholic and
Donatist bishops, Quiza was represented by the
Catholic Priscus, who had no Donatist counterpart. He is mentioned also in a letter of
Saint Augustine to
Pope Celestine I .
[9]
Tiberianus of Quiza was one of the Catholic bishops whom the
Arian
Vandal king
Huneric
summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled. In addition, the name of a Bishop Vitalianus appears in the mosaic pavement of the excavated basilica of Quiza.
[10]
[11]
[12]
Bishops
No longer a residential
bishopric , Quiza is today listed by the
Catholic Church as a
titular see .
[13]
Bishop Flores of San Diego.
See also
Notes
^ This is sometimes mistakenly written Quiza Cenitana
References
^
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Quiza
^
a
b Smith, William (1854).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: Walton and Maberly.
^
Horster, Marietta (2001). Bauinschriften römischer Kaiser (in German). Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 434.
ISBN
978-3-51507951-8 .
^ Letzner, Wolfram (2000).
Lucius Cornelius Sulla . LIT Verlag. p. 45.
ISBN
978-3-82585041-8 .
^ Cancick, Herbert; et al., eds. (2006).
Brill's New Pauly . Brill. p. cxcv.
ISBN
978-9-00412272-7 .
^ Pliny the Elder (1855).
The Natural History of Pliny . Henry G. Bohn.
ISBN
9780598910738 .
^ Ruinart, Thierry (1699).
Historia persecutionis Vandalicæ in duas partes distincta. Prior complectitur libros 5 Victoris Vitensis episcopi, & alia antiqua monumenta. Posterior Commentarium historicum de persecutionis Vandalicæ. Opera & studio T. Ruinart .
^
a
b
"Quiziensis" . catholic-hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Archived from
the original on April 2, 2015.
^ Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Rotelle, John E. (2004).
Letters 156-210: Epistulae II . New City Press.
ISBN
9781565482005 .
^ Mesnage, J. (1912).
L'Afrique chrétienne . Paris. p. 484. {{
cite book }}
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link )
^ Morcelli, Stefano Antonio (1816).
Africa christiana . Vol. I. Brescia. p. 260.
^ Gams, Pius Bonifacius (1931).
Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae . Leipzig. p. 467. {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 . Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2013. p. 957.
ISBN
978-88-209-9070-1 .
^
"Svätý Otec František menoval nového spišského pomocného biskupa" [Holy Father Francis Appoints New Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš] (in Slovak). Bratislava: Tlačová kancelária Konferencie biskupov Slovenska. March 25, 2020.
Bibliography
Laffi, Umberto. Colonie e municipi nello Stato romano Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. Roma, 2007
ISBN
8884983509
Mommsen, Theodore. The Provinces of the Roman Empire Section: Roman Africa. (Leipzig 1865; London 1866; London: Macmillan 1909; reprint New York 1996) Barnes & Noble. New York, 1996
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