Aïn Tine

Aïn Tine
Commune and town
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Coordinates: 36°23′46″N 6°19′20″E / 36.39611°N 6.32222°E / 36.39611; 6.32222
Country Algeria
ProvinceMila Province
Population
 (1998)
 • Total
6,653
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Aïn Tine or Aïn Tinn (formerly Belfort) is a town and commune in Mila Province, Algeria. At the 1998 census it had a population of 6653.[1][2]

History

Under the Roman Empire, it was called Coeliana, perhaps after the name of the Coelii Maximi family,[3] and was part of the Roman province of Numidia.

Bishop Quodvultdeus of Coeliana was one of the Catholic bishops whom the Arian Vandal king Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.[4] Pius Bonifacius Gams,[5]

No longer a residential bishopric, Coeliana is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[6]

References

  1. ^ Statoids
  2. ^ Tageo
  3. ^ J. Mesnage, L'Afrique Chrétienne: Évèchés et ruines antiques (Paris, 1912), p. 259
  4. ^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 113
  5. ^ Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 464
  6. ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 865

36°23′48″N 6°19′30″E / 36.39667°N 6.32500°E / 36.39667; 6.32500


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