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Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site in Tunisia. It is identified with ruins near the modern town of Enfidha, Tunisia and represents a former Roman town of the province of Africa Proconularis.

Henchir Chigarnia is an Archaeological site and former civitas of the Roman Province of Africa proconularis.[1]

The ruins include a large fortress[2] and of a church in which were found mosaics with epitaphs of various bishops and martyrs.[3] There is also an Amphitheatre.[4]

The bishopric of Uppenna has been brought into use as a Roman Catholic titular see since 1967.

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  1. ^ "Uppenna, Henchir Chigarnia – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire".
  2. ^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p271.
  3. ^ Susan T. Stevens, Of martyrs and mosaics: two Early Christian churches at Sidi Jdidi (Aradi) and Henchir Chigarnia (Uppenna) Journal of Roman Archaeology Volume 20.
  4. ^ Amphitheatre, Henchir Chigarnia.


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