Germaniciana

Africa proconsularis.

Abbir Germaniciana[1] also known as Abir Cella[2] is the name of a Roman and Byzantine-era city in the Roman province of Africa proconsularis (today northern Tunisia).[3] The city was also the seat of a bishopric, in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage, and is best known as the home town of the Pre Nicaean father, Cyprian, who was bishop of Abbir Germaniciana around 250AD.

  1. ^ Abbiritanus Germanicianorum
  2. ^ Edward White Benson, Cyprian: His Life, His Times, His Work: His Life, His Times, His Work (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2004) p604
  3. ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest(Edipuglia srl, 2007) p90