Henchir Chigarnia

Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site in Tunisia. It is identified with ruins near the modern town of Enfidha, Tunisia and represents a former Roman town of the province of Africa Proconularis.

Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site and former civitas of the Roman Province of Africa proconularis.[1]

The ruins include a large fortress[2] and of a church in which were found mosaics with epitaphs of various bishops and martyrs.[3] There is also an Amphitheatre.[4]

The bishopric of Uppenna has been brought into use as a Roman Catholic titular see since 1967.

References
  1. "Uppenna, Henchir Chigarnia – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire".
  2. Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p271.
  3. Susan T. Stevens, Of martyrs and mosaics: two Early Christian churches at Sidi Jdidi (Aradi) and Henchir Chigarnia (Uppenna) Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 20.
  4. Amphitheatre, Henchir Chigarnia.


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