Timici


Timici was a Phoenician, Numidian, and Roman town located in present-day Ain Matboul, Algeria.

Name

Timici is a Latinization of the town's Punic name ???‬?.
Timici means fire in Tamazight.

History

Timici minted its own bronze coins with Punic legends.
Under the Romans, Timici was a native town in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
The town was previously identified with the ruins at Aïn Témouchent, which were actually the remnants of Roman Albulae.

Religion

Timici was the seat of a Christian bishop in antiquity. Three of them appear in the surviving historical record. The title fell into abeyance during the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived as a Roman Catholic titular see in the 20th century.

List of bishops

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