Melzi
Melzi was a civitas of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. It was also known as Meditanus.
The town was in the Medjerda River valley of northern Tunisia. It was a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis,
And the town has been tentatively identified with ruins at the Oued-Melzi Wadi and the Bagrada river confluence.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.
There are two documented bishops of this African dioceses.
- Valerio was convicted, along with other supporters of the Donatist bishops Maximian, in the Donatist Council of Bagai of 394.
- The Catholic bishop Tutus, who participated in the Council of Carthage of 411,. Tutus himself was present with two other councils of Carthage, celebrated in 416 and 424.