Douela or Douala is a village and locality in Tunisia, situated on the Mediterranean coast at latitude 36.8167°, longitude 10.5667° (37km east of Tunis) and near Sīdī `Ammār,[1]Korbous, and El Bredj.[2]
Locality
Douela lies on the Cap Bon peninsula surrounded by the Qorbus Forest, the area especially the thermal springs at nearby Korbous have been popular as a health resort since Roman times.
History
During the Roman Empire and late antiquity the village of Douela was a town of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. The site has revealed numerous inscription in the ruins of the Roman town[3] which tell us the Ancient town was a civitas known as Mizigitanorum.
^Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p285–288.
^Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.
^Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), p. 231.
^J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 59.
^Titular Episcopal See of Mizigi.
^Mizigi in catholic-hierarchy.org
^Poinssot, Louis "La Civitas Mizigitanorum et le pagus Assalitanus" (Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) (1920) vol64, Num3 p287.