Cheffia

El Cheffia
الشافية
El Cheffia
Commune and town
Interactive map of El Cheffia
Country Algeria
ProvinceEl Taref Province
Population
 (2008)
 • Total
8,195
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
Postal code
36032

Cheffia is a town and commune in El Taref Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 7,450.

Topographic map of the region around Cheffia

The Cheffia valley was described in 1868 by Reboud as being comprised between the eastern slope of the Bou Habet and a series of grassy knolls where a few gardens and clumps of azeroliers stand here and there. It is a valley which measures from north to south about fifteen kilometres and five kilometres wide. It is divided into two basins by the cultivated plateau of Sidi-Bou-Aoun, which has large stones.

History

Libyco-Berber inscriptions from Cheffia

Cheffia is the site of the Roman city of Thullium in the Province of Numidia. The Cheffia valley contains a number of ruins that can be considered as Libyan necropolises. Reboud describes a number thereof, and their Lybic (Libyco-Berber) inscriptions, and published the map shown in this article. The region was slow to christianize, with Thullium not receiving its first bishop until the end of the fifth century; a bishop from there was present at the Council of Carthage in 525.

Map showing sites where necropolises have been discovered around Cheffia

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Statoids
  2. ↑ Reboud, Victor (1870). "Recueil d'inscriptions libyco-berbères". Paris: Mémoires de la Société française de numismatique et d'archéologie: 113. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ Bowman, Alan; Wilson, Andrew (2013). The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production. Oxford University Press. p. 331. ISBN 978-0-19-966572-3. Retrieved Jan 3, 2022.
  4. ↑ Price, Jonathan J.; Finkelberg, Margalit; Shahar, Yuval (2021). Rome: An Empire of Many Nations. Cambridge University Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9781108785563. Retrieved Jan 6, 2022.
  5. ↑ Leone, Anna (2011–2012). "Bishops and Territory: The Case of Late Roman and Byzantine North Africa". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 65/66: 5–27. JSTOR 41933702. Retrieved Jan 7, 2022.

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