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Sidi Ahmed Djedidi

Sidi Ahmed Djedidi

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Sidi Ahmed Djedidi is a town and hill near Hammamet, Tunisia, 64 Kilometers south of Tunis. It is located at 36.4n and 10.4e.

Map showing town in Roman North Africa.

During the Roman Empire the town was known as Elephantaria and was a civitas of the Africa Proconsularis.[1][2] The city at that time was the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Elephantaria at GCatholic.org.
  2. [2]
    Sidi Ahmed Djedidi.
  3. [3]
    Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1).
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