Thagora

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Location	Algeria
Coordinates	36°10′N 8°02′E  /  36.167°N 8.033°E  / 36.167; 8.033

Thagora was a Carthaginian and Roman town at what is now Taoura , Algeria .

Name [ edit ]

The Punic form of its name was TGRN ( ?????????? ). ^[1] The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora .

History [ edit ]

Thagora was an inland trading post controlled by Carthage . It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) southeast of Hippo Regius . ^[1] It minted bronze coins with a bearded head obverse and a prancing horse beneath a star reverse . ^[1]

Under the Romans, it formed part of the province of Numidia .

Religion [ edit ]

Thagora was a Christian bishopric . The names of three of its diocesan bishops are known. ^[2] It fell into abeyance following the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived by the Roman Catholic Church as a titular see . ^[3]

List of bishops [ edit ]

• Xanthippus, mentioned by Augustine of Hippo in 401
• Postumianus, who participated in the Conference of Carthage (411)
• Timotheus, twentieth in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Hunneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
• John Baptist Cahill (1900)
• Alexandre Piquemal (1909?1920)
• Miguel de los Santos Diaz y Gomara (1920?1924)
• Jozef Carsky (1925?1962)
• Carlo Livraghi (1962?1975)
• Eduardo Martinez Somalo (1975?1988)
• Cipriano Calderon Polo (1988?2009)
• Giuseppe Marciante (2009?)
• Koen Vanhoutte (2018-)

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