Rusippisir

Rusippisir was a Phoenician, Carthaginian, and Roman town on Algeria's Mediterranean coast at the site of present-day Taksebt.

Rusippisir
Shown within Algeria
LocationTaksebt, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria
Coordinates36°54′03.4″N 4°09′34.5″E

Name
Further information: Maghreb placename etymology

Rusippisir is the latinization of the town's Punic name, which probably meant "Cape Rosemary".[1]

Geography

Rusippisir was located at Cape Tedless (French: Cap Tedles), Algeria,[1] the site of present-day Taksebt in Tizi Ouzou.

History

Rusippisir was established as a colony on the trade route between Phoenicia and the Strait of Gibraltar. Its port was nearby Iomnium (present-day Tigzirt). It later fell under Carthaginian and then, after the Punic Wars, Roman hegemony. Punic steles in Rusippisir continued to be produced well into the imperial period and there was tophet in the town.[1]

Religion

In antiquity, Rusippisir was the site of a Christian bishopric. This was revived in the 20th century as a Catholic titular see (Latin: Dioecesis Rusubisiritana; Italian: Rusibisir).[2][3]

List of bishops
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  • Léon-Théobald Delaere, OFM Cap (1967.08.03 – 1976.09.14)
  • Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1977.05.24 – 1981.11.19)
  • Ivan Dias (1982.05.08 – 1996.11.08)
  • Daniel Caro Borda (2000.07.21 – 2003.08.06)
  • Martin David Holley (2004.05.18 – 2016.10.19)
  • Mark E. Brennan (2017.01.19 - present)
gollark: - To reduce bias in government decision making we will use a random number generator for all major policy problems.
gollark: - To ensure our ancestors' traditions are respected, we should randomly dig them up and drag them to voting booths.
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gollark: - As eating meat places suffering on millions of innocent animals, I believe animal meat should be replaced with human flesh from donors, as humans are able to meaningfully consent to this while animals are not (and don't get a choice in practice anyway).
gollark: - To increase the efficiency of the education system and encourage self-directed learning, I believe schools should lock children in individual cubicles with textbooks for 5 hours a day instead of using classrooms and teachers.

References

Citations
  1. Lipiński (2004), p. 397–9.
  2. "Rusibisir", GigaCatholic.
  3. "Rusibisir", Catholic Hierarchy.

Bibliography
  • Lipiński, Edward (2004), Itineraria Phoenicia, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, No. 127, Studia Phoenicia, Vol. XVIII, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters.
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