Quiza was originally a small Berber village, with Phoenician roots. It grew under the Roman empire. Around 120 AD, the emperor Hadrian erected an arch in the city.
William Smith identified Quiza with Giza near Oran, Algeria in his work, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.[2] More recent investigations have identified it with present-day El-Benian on the coast road between Mostaga and Dara.[3][4][5]
In his Natural History, 4.2.3., Pliny the Elder: writes: "Next to this is Quiza Xenitana, a town founded by strangers"; a remark explained because the word Xenitana is derived from Greek ξένος, "a stranger",[6] as explained also by Victor Vitensis.[7] The town is mentioned also by Pliny elsewhere (5.2), by Ptolemy, and by Pomponius Mela.[2]
Bishopric
Quiza is also a titular see of Christianity. Quaestoriana was in the ecclesiastical province of Byzacena.[8]
^Letzner, Wolfram (2000). Lucius Cornelius Sulla. LIT Verlag. p. 45. ISBN 978-3-82585041-8.
^Cancick, Herbert; et al., eds. (2006). Brill's New Pauly. Brill. p. cxcv. ISBN 978-9-00412272-7.
^Pliny the Elder (1855). The Natural History of Pliny. Henry G. Bohn. ISBN 9780598910738.
^Ruinart, Thierry (1699). Historia persecutionis Vandalicæ in duas partes distincta. Prior complectitur libros 5 Victoris Vitensis episcopi, & alia antiqua monumenta. Posterior Commentarium historicum de persecutionis Vandalicæ. Opera & studio T. Ruinart.
^ a b"Quiziensis". catholic-hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
^Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Rotelle, John E. (2004). Letters 156-210: Epistulae II. New City Press. ISBN 9781565482005.
^Mesnage, J. (1912). L'Afrique chrétienne. Paris. p. 484.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Morcelli, Stefano Antonio (1816). Africa christiana. Vol. I. Brescia. p. 260.
^Gams, Pius Bonifacius (1931). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae. Leipzig. p. 467.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Annuario Pontificio 2013. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2013. p. 957. ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1.
^"Svätý Otec František menoval nového spišského pomocného biskupa" [Holy Father Francis Appoints New Auxiliary Bishop of Spiš] (in Slovak). Bratislava: Tlačová kancelária Konferencie biskupov Slovenska. March 25, 2020.
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Mommsen, Theodore. The Provinces of the Roman Empire Section: Roman Africa. (Leipzig 1865; London 1866; London: Macmillan 1909; reprint New York 1996) Barnes & Noble. New York, 1996