Henchir-Khachoum
الخرطومأنقاض Muzuca | |
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Coordinates: 35°13′53″N 9°7′46″E / 35.23139°N 9.12944°E | |
Country | Tunisia |
Governorate | Sidi Bouzid Governorate |
Population | |
• Ethnicities | Arab |
• Ethnicities density | 55.11/km2 (142.7/sq mi) |
• Religions | Islam |
Time zone | UTC1 (CET) |
Postal code | 1250[1] |
Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla. During the Roman Empire there was a Roman town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, called Muzuca, one of two North African towns to bare that name.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric,[2] suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.[3]
There are three documented bishops of Muzuca.
Today Muzuca in Proconsulari survives as titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church,[5] and the current bishop is Celmo Lazzari,[6] of San Miguel de Sucumbíos.[7][8]