Tiddis


Tiddis was a Roman city that depended on Cirta and a bishopric as Tiddi, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
It was located on the territory of the current commune of Bni Hamden in the Constantine Province of eastern Algeria.

History

Tiddis was built by the Romans and arranged according to their system of urbanization.
This prosperous town, established on a plateau, had a monumental gate, baths, industrial facilities, a sanctuary to Mithras dating back to the 4th century BC, and also a Christian chapel.
Castles and water tanks of all forms remind us that the city has gradually been abandoned because it lacked sources. One can admire the mausoleum that Quintus Lollius Urbicus, a native of Tiddis who then became prefect of Rome.
Today, Tiddis is an authentic Roman site called Res eddar or the "peak of the House" located in the Gorge of the Khreneg, just north of Cirta. It marks the presence of a Roman civilization through rock art inscriptions and Roman pottery.

Ecclesiastical history

Under Byzantine control, Castellum Tidditanorum had two small churches and was the see of a diocese.
Four bishops are assigned by Morcelli to this see, but Mesnage and Jaubert believe they were bishops of Tisedi, leaving only
The Christian community probably disappeared with the Arab conquest in the second half of the 7th century, but some pottery remains showed the survival of a small village inside the ruins of Tiddis until the 9th century.

Titular see

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