Kasserine

Coordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°E / 35.167; 8.833

Kasserine
ڨصرين
Kasserine

Location in Tunisia

Coordinates: 35°10′N 8°50′E / 35.167°N 8.833°E / 35.167; 8.833
Country Tunisia
Governorate Kasserine Governorate
Government
 • Governor Atef Boughatas
 • Mayor Maher Bouazzi
Population (2014)
 • Total 108 794
Time zone CET (UTC1)
Postal code 1253[1]

Kasserine (Arabic: ڨصرين‎  Gaṣrīn) is the capital city of the Kasserine Governorate, in west-central Tunisia. It is situated below Jebel ech Chambi, Tunisia's highest mountain.[2] Its population is 76,243 (2004).[3]

History

In classical antiquity it was a Roman colony, known as Cillium. Under Roman Emperor Vespasian (69-79) or Titus (79-81), it was elevated to the rank of municipium, and under the Severan dynasty to that of colonia (Cillilana). Archaeological evidence remains on site: mausoleums, triumphal arches, thermae, a theatre and a Christian basilica.[4]

Ecclesiastical history

Cillium was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan of the Metropolitan of Hadrumetum.

In 411, Cillium was represented at the Conference of Carthage between Catholic and Donatist bishops by the Catholic Tertiolus and the Donatist Donatus. In 484, Fortunatianus of Cillium was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage and then exiled.[5][6][7]

Titular see of Cillium

No longer a residential bishopric, Cillium is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[8]

Since its nominal restoration in 1925, the Latin titular bishopric has had the following incumbents, both of the lowest (episcopal) rank :

Geography

Kasserine is located in western central Tunisia. By road it is 200 kilometres west of Sfax, 246 kilometres (180 mi) south-west of Tunis, 166 kilometres (141 mi) south-west of Sousse.

Kasserine is divided into 11 districts:

 Foussana Foussana Sbeitla
Foussana, Feriana Sbeitla
   Kasserine  
Feriana Hassi El Ferid Hassi El Ferid

Sports

Haggui in action for Bayer Leverkusen in 2007.

Kasserine's most popular sport club is the AS Kasserine (football, soccer).

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Postal code of Kasserine, GeoPostcodes
  2. ↑ "Jebel Chambi" on Peakbagger.com Retrieved 1 October 2011
  3. ↑ (French) Recensement of 2004 (National Institute of Statistics)
  4. ↑ Associazione Storico-Culturale S. Agostino: "Cillium"
  5. ↑ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, pp. 139–140
  6. ↑ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 465
  7. ↑ J. Ferron, v. Cillium, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 831-832
  8. ↑ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 869
  9. ↑ Faouzia Aloui Profile in africultures
  10. ↑ (Arabic) Faouzia Aloui at Diwanalarab
  11. ↑ Karim Haggui at worldfootball.net

Sources and External links

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, April 21, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.