Elephantaria in Mauretania was an ancient city in the Maghreb during the Roman, Byzantine and Vandal empires.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Bettoni, Africa Christiana: in tres partes tributa (ex officina Bettoniana, 1816) page 154.August Pauly, Real-encyclopedia of the class. Alterthumswissenschaften in alphabetical order, Volume 3 (Metzler, 1844) page 78. It is shown on the Peutinger Table map.Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830–1900 (BRILL, 8 May 2014) page 118.
Today, the city exists only as unexcavated ruins at Henchir, a suburb of Algiers, and a titular see in the Mauretania Caesariensis province of the Roman Catholic Church. Until 2020 the title was held by Angelo Moreschi, of Ethiopia.Titular Episcopal See of Elephantaria in Mauretania.Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ), "Sedi titolari", pp. 819-1013.
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