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Castellum Minus

Castellum Minus

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Castellum Minus was an ancient city located in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis in today's northern Algeria.[1][2] The ancient city is identified with ruins near Coléa, Algeria,[3] (at 35.3877778° latitude and 0.1416667° longitude).

Roman Empire - Mauretania Caesariensis (125 AD)

The ancient town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric.[4][5] Which remains today a titular see[6] in the Roman Catholic Church.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Castellum Minus, at Catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. [2]
    Joseph Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Volume 3. (William Straker and J. H. Parker, 1840) p 232.
  3. [3]
    Cheney, David M. "Castellum Minus (Titular See) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
  4. [4]
    Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri.(Tip. Emiliana, 1841). p212.
  5. [5]
    Charles Louis Richard, Jean Joseph Giraud, Bibliothèque sacrée, ou, Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique. (1822) p193.
  6. [6]
    Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013
  7. [7]
    Castellum minus at GCatholic.org.
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