Douela

Douela or Douala is a village and locality in Tunisia, situated on the Mediterranean coast at latitude 36.8167°, longitude 10.5667° (37km east of Tunis) and near Sīdī `Ammār,[1] Korbous, and El Bredj.[2]

country around Douela

Locality

Douela lies on the Cap Bon peninsula surrounded by the Qorbus Forest, the area especially the thermal springs at nearby Korbous have been popular as a health resort since Roman times.

History

During the Roman Empire and late antiquity the village of Douela was a town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The site has revealed numerous inscription in the ruins of the Roman town[3] which tell us the Ancient town was a civitas known as Mizigitanorum.

In antiquity, Douela was also the seat of a Christian bishopric known as Mizigi.[4][5][6] This diocese remains today a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. [7][8] Only two bishops of ancient Douela (Mizigi) are known.

  • The name of Adeodatus was discovered in the inscription on the dedication of a church, possibly the bishop who had it built.
  • Placido attended the Council of Carthage (525)[9]
  • Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes of Guatemala is the current bishop.

The town also has a mosque.[10]

References
  1. Traveling Luck for Jabal Douela, Tunisia.
  2. Douala at mapcarta.com.
  3. Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p285–288.
  4. Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
  5. Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231.
  6. J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 59.
  7. Titular Episcopal See of Mizigi.
  8. Mizigi in catholic-hierarchy.org
  9. Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p287.
  10. Mosquée Al Rahma Douela.
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