Gilva, Numidia

Gilva vicinity

Gilva was a Roman–Berber city in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis. It flourished during the Roman and Vandal empires.^[1] It was located to the south of Hippo Regius in present-day Algeria. The town existed from around 300 to 640AD.

Gilva is known through the writing of Augustine, over a dispute over an appointment of a bishop to the bishopric seat who was unwanted by the parishioners.^[2]

The town was a colonia and one of 170 bishoprics in Roman North Africa.^[3] In 422, there was a local Church synod.^[4]

Roman rule in the city ended in the 7th century with the spread of Islam.

See also

• Catholic Church in Algeria

References

1. Novum lexicon geographicum Illud primum in lucem edidit Philippus Ferrarius ...; nunc vero Michael Antonius Baudrand ... ,... dimidia... parte auctiorem fecit, ut Novum lexicon jure optimo dicatur. Accesserunt sub finem Dominici Magri (sumptibus J P.Shmidt, 1677 ) p 211.
2. Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine(Cambridge University Press, 2011) p.403.
3. William Smith, LLD. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854).
4. Roger E. Reynolds, Studien zu den Quellen der frühmittelalterlichen Bussbücher by Ludger Körntgen, The Catholic Historical Review Vol. 84, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 318-322.