Ksar Sbahi

Ksar Sbahi
Commune and town
Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
Landscape of the Hautes Plaines in the winter
Country Algeria
ProvinceOum El Bouaghi Province
Population
 (1998)
 • Total
11,095
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Ksar Sbahi is a town and commune in Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria and the site of Ancient Gadiaufala, a Roman city and former bishopric, now a Latin Catholic titular see.

According to the 1998 census it has a population of 11,095.

History

A Punic coin of Gadiauphala with the legend 𐤏𐤀 (ʿʾ)

Gadiaufala was important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric of its capital's Metropolitan Archbishop of ?Cirta, but later faded.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a titular bishopric in 1933. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

References

  1. ↑ Statoids
  2. ↑ Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Numidia", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 886

36°05′N 7°15′E / 36.083°N 7.250°E / 36.083; 7.250