Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.
Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.
==History== The town was the seat of a late antiquity Christian bishopric There are three bishops known from Niceives. At the 411 Conference of Carthage, which saw the Catholics and Donatists, debate, the town was represented by the Catholic Justus episcopus Nicibensis, who did not have Donatist counterpart. Among the Catholic bishops called to Carthage in 484 by King Huneric the Vandal was Paulus Nibensis, which according to Mesnage is to be read as Nicibensis. Finally a Byzantine inscription discovered in the region of N'Gaous and dating from 580 shows the name Columbus: according to the J. Mesnage this Columbus may be the bishop referred to in some letters written by Gregory the Great at the beginning of the 7th century who was appointed to investigate Maximianus bishop of Pudenziana, accused by his deacons of being bribed by Donatists.
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