Aïn Tine Explained

Official Name:Aïn Tine
Settlement Type:Commune and town
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Algeria
Subdivision Name1:Mila Province
Subdivision Type2:District
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:1998
Population Total:6653
Utc Offset:+1
Coordinates:36.3961°N 6.3222°W

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

36.3967°N 6.325°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.statoids.com/ydz.html Statoids
  2. http://www.tageo.com/index-e-ag-v-48-d-m658581.htm 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. http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=65154&dirids=1 Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae
  6. Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013), p. 865