Douela

Douela or Douala is a village and locality in Tunisia, situated on the Mediterranean coast at latitude 36.8167°, longitude 10.5667° (37km east of Tunis) and near Sīdī `Ammār,^[1] Korbous, and El Bredj.^[2]

Locality

Douela lies on the Cap Bon peninsula surrounded by the Qorbus Forest, the area especially the thermal springs at nearby Korbous have been popular as a health resort since Roman times.

History

During the Roman Empire and late antiquity the village of Douela was a town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The site has revealed numerous inscription in the ruins of the Roman town^[3] which tell us the Ancient town was a civitas known as Mizigitanorum.

In antiquity, Douela was also the seat of a Christian bishopric known as Mizigi.^[4]^[5]^[6] This diocese remains today a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. ^[7]^[8] Only two bishops of ancient Douela (Mizigi) are known.

The name of Adeodatus was discovered in the inscription on the dedication of a church, possibly the bishop who had it built.
Placido attended the Council of Carthage (525)^[9]
Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes of Guatemala is the current bishop.

The town also has a mosque.^[10]

References

^ Traveling Luck for Jabal Douela, Tunisia.
^ Douala at mapcarta.com.
^ Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p285–288.
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231.
^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 59.
^ Titular Episcopal See of Mizigi.
^ Mizigi in catholic-hierarchy.org
^ Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p287.
^ Mosquée Al Rahma Douela.

[1] Traveling Luck for Jabal Douela, Tunisia.

[2] Douala at mapcarta.com.

[3] Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p285–288.

[4] Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.

[5] Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231.

[6] J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 59.

[7] Titular Episcopal See of Mizigi.

[8] Mizigi in catholic-hierarchy.org

[9] Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p287.

[10] Mosquée Al Rahma Douela.

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