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The Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae ("Notice of the Provinces and Cities of Africa") is a Byzantine-era document listing the bishops and sees in the Roman provinces of North Africa, Sardinia and the Balearics.[1] The cause of its preparation was the council of Carthage held on 1 February 484 by the Arian king of the Vandals, Huneric (477–484).
It is arranged according to provinces in the following order: Proconsularis, Numidia, Byzacena, Mauretania Caesariensis, Mauretania Sitifensis, Tripolitana and Sardinia. It also names exiled bishops and vacant sees, and is an important authority for the history of the early African church and the geography of these provinces. It is preserved in the sole extant manuscript containing the History of the Vandal Persecution by Bishop Victor of Vita.[2][3][4][5][6]
- ^ Victor of Vita
- ^ Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae
- ^ Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Africae
- ^ Johan Leemans, Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity (Walter de Gruyter, 2011)p485.
- ^ J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 2.
- ^ Notitia Africae.