Sululos was a Roman era Municipium of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis that flourished from R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, and S. Gillies, 'Sululos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2012 which flourished from 30 BC - AD 640.Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 E4 Sululos The ancient town was officially known as Municipium Septimium Aurelium Severianum Apollinare Sululitanum and is tentatively identified with ruins at Bir-el-Heuch, (Bir-el-Ach) About: Sululos, Bir-el-Ach 36.461372, 9.605158 in what is today Tunisia.
The town was in the region of the Merjerda (Bagrada) and Oued Miliane rivers and, 4 km north of Djebel Riban, 35 km east of Dougga and 60 km soüthwest of Tunis.
History We know that in 168AD the city is still a civitas (town) but under Septimius Severus and Caracalla it had been raised to a municipium status.
Babelon records an aqueduct with a source in the South-Vedic area near Ain Sense, a temple and a bridge,E. Babelon - R. Cagnat - S. Reinach, Archaeological Atlas of Tunisia. Archaeological Atlas of Tunisia: special edition of the topographical maps published by the Ministry of War. Accompanied by an explanatory text written by Mm (Paris 1893); later converted into a fortress.Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007 ) p348. 6 kilometres north of the ruins of Bir-el-Ach, was found a Base for statue of Valentinian I (364–375) now on display at the Bardo Museum. Base for statue of Valentinian I, emperor. From Sululos (Africa Proconsularis) at Last Statues of Antiquity, Oxford University.
The town was also the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, Sululos at Catholic-hierarchy.org. and one bishop is known to have attended the Council of Carthage (411). The diocese effectively ceased to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb but was re-established in 1927 as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.Titular Episcopal See of Sululos at GCatholic.org. The current bishop is John Baptist Tseng Chien-tsi.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,374 Titular Episcopal See of Sululos, at GCatholic,org.
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