Icosium
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Icosium (Punic: , "Island of the Owls"; , Ikósion) was a city of Berber origin and a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric (now a Latin titular see) in the casbah area of modern Algiers.
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- Instance of
- titular see
- Country
- Algeria
- Located in
- Algeria
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- culture
- Roman Republic
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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- Roman town
- Later history
- Religion
- List of bishops
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Icosium (Punic: , "Island of the Owls"; , Ikósion) was a city of Berber origin and a Punic settlement, founded by Heracles and his companions in present-day Algeria. It was part of Numidia and later became an important Roman colony and an early medieval bishopric (now a Latin titular see) in the casbah area of modern Algiers.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Icosium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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