Thagora

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Location	Algeria
Coordinates	36°10′N 8°02′E / 36.167°N 8.033°E / 36.167; 8.033

Thagora was a Carthaginian and Roman town at what is now Taoura, Algeria.

Name

The Punic form of its name was TGRN (𐤕‬𐤂‬𐤓𐤍).^[1] The Tabula Peutingeriana calls it Thacora.

History

Thagora was an inland trading post controlled by Carthage. It was about 64 kilometers (40 mi) southeast of Hippo Regius.^[1] It minted bronze coins with a bearded head obverse and a prancing horse beneath a star reverse.^[1]

Under the Romans, it formed part of the province of Numidia.

Religion

Thagora was a Christian bishopric. The names of three of its diocesan bishops are known.^[2] It fell into abeyance following the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb but was revived by the Roman Catholic Church as a titular see.^[3]

List of bishops

• Xanthippus, mentioned by Augustine of Hippo in 401
• Postumianus, who participated in the Conference of Carthage (411)
• Timotheus, twentieth in the list of the Catholic bishops whom Hunneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.
• John Baptist Cahill (1900)
• Alexandre Piquemal (1909–1920)
• Miguel de los Santos Díaz y Gómara (1920–1924)
• Jozef Cársky (1925–1962)
• Carlo Livraghi (1962–1975)
• Eduardo Martínez Somalo (1975–1988)
• Cipriano Calderón Polo (1988–2009)
• Giuseppe Marciante (2009–)
• Koen Vanhoutte (2018-)