Zaghouan

Zaghouan

Zaghouan
Zaghouan

Location in Tunisia

Coordinates: 36°24′N 10°09′E / 36.400°N 10.150°E / 36.400; 10.150
Country Tunisia
Governorate Zaghouan Governorate
Population (2014)
 • Total 20,837
Time zone CET (UTC1)

Zaghwan (or Zaghouan; Arabic: زغوان‎‎  Zaġwān) is a town in the northern half of Tunisia.

Situated on a low ridge of the Dorsale Mountains, the town has a mild climate and presents a green aspect. Cold water from here was taken by aqueduct to Carthage. The town is famous for its roses, originally cultivated by Muslim refugees from Spain in the seventeenth century. The town is located around 100 km due south of Tunis and around 50 km inland (west) from the Gulf of Hammamet and has an estimated population of around 20,837 (2014). It is the capital of the Zaghouan Governorate.

On the mountain south of the city is the Roman Water Temple Djebel Zaghouan (Temple de Eaux), source of an aqueduct which used to take water to the city of Carthage over 100 km away.

Ecclesiastical history

Zagwan is the presumed site of the Ancient city of Zica, which was among the many of sufficient importance in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to become a suffragan diocese of the Metropolitan of Carthage, in the papal sway, yet was to fade completely, probably at the seventh century advent of Islam.

Its historically documented bishops were :

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as Latin Titular bishopric of Zica (Latin = Curiate Italian) / Zicen(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank, with an archiepiscopal exception:

BIOS TO ELABORATE

See also

Bibliography - Zica bishopric

Coordinates: 36°24′N 10°09′E / 36.400°N 10.150°E / 36.400; 10.150

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