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Timici

Timici ruins

Aïn Metboul, Sidi M'hamed Ben Ali

500

4th century BC

6th century

1th century^{[clarification needed]}

Punic and Roman

Name[edit]

Timici is a Latinization of the town's Punic name 𐤕𐤌𐤊‬𐤉 (TMKY).^[1][2]

Timici means fire in Tamazight

History[edit]

Timici minted its own bronze coins with Punic legends.^[2]

Under the Romans, Timici was a native town (civitas) in the provinceofMauretania Caesariensis.^[3]

The town was previously identified with the ruins at Aïn Témouchent,^[4] which were actually the remnants of Roman Albulae.

Religion[edit]

Timici was the seat of a Christian bishopinantiquity. Three of them appear in the surviving historical record. The title fell into abeyance during the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived as a Roman Catholic titular see (Latin: Dioecesis Timicitana) in the 20th century.^[5][6]

List of bishops[edit]

• Vitorre a Catholic bishop who represented the town at the Council of Carthage (411), which heard the dispute between Catholic and Donatists.
• The Donatist Optato was Vittores' counterpart at the conference.
• Honorius participated in the synod assembled in Carthage in 484 by King Huneric of the Vandal Kingdom, after the synod Honorius was exiled.
• Fernando Ariztía Ruiz (1967–1976)
• Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo (1977–1984)
• Toribio Ticona Porco (1986–1992)
• Francisco Cases Andreu (1994–1996)
• John Forrosuelo Du (1997–2001)^[7]
• Donald George Sproxton (2001–current), Perth's auxiliary bishop.^[8]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Filigheddu, Paolo (2007), "Die Ortsnamen des Mittelmeerraums in der Phönizischen und Punischen Überlieferung", Ugarit-Forschungen: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde Syrien-Palästinas, vol.  38 2006, Munster: Ugarit Verlag, pp. 149–266. (in German)
• Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Mauretania", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 887–890.

Phoenician cities and colonies