Official Name: | Henchir-Khachoum |
Other Name: | Muzuca |
Native Name: | الخرطومأنقاض |
Pushpin Map: | Tunisia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Tunisia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Tunisia |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Sidi Bouzid Governorate |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Arab |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Population Blank2: | Islam |
Population Density Blank1 Km2: | 55.11 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | 1 |
Coordinates: | 35.2314°N 9.1294°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
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]