Thucca in Mauretania
Thucca was a town in the Roman province of Mauretania Sitifensis.
Pliny the Elder describes Thucca as "impositum mari et flumini Ampsagae", and thus on the border with Numidia. The town was a Christian bishoprics and are included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.
Although the precise location of the town is unclear, historians consider it likely that its site is now occupied by the ruins of Merdja, near in present-day Algeria. The town is referred to as Thucca in Mauretania to distinguish it from Thucca in Numidia, which is today Henchir-El-Abiodh, further east inland in Algeria.
Bishops
The names of two of the bishops of Thucca in Mauretania are known:- Honoratus, who spoke in support of the position held by Saint Cyprian on the validity of baptism administered by heretics at the Council of Carthage (255);
- Uzulus, one of the Catholic bishops summoned by king Huneric to the Council of Carthage (484) and then exiled for refusing to convert to Arianism.