Henchir-El-Meden is a locality and archaeological site in Tunisia.
History During antiquity The city was a municipium of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis called Municipium Auralia Vina.Victor Guérin, Voyage archéologique dans la Régence de Tunis (Рипол Классик, 1862) p267. The ruins include an amphitheatre dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study (OUP Oxford, 20 July 2006 ) p290.
During the Byzantine and Roman Empires Vina was also the seat of an ancient Christian episcopal see, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Carthage.Titular Episcopal See of Vina at GCatholic.org. Four bishops are attributable to Vina. Faustino participated in the Cabarsussi Council, held in 393 by Maximianus, a dissident sect of the Donatists, and signed the Acts of that council. At the Council of Carthage (411), the Catholic Vittore attended. The town had no Donatist as Faustino had died five years earlier (406). Cresconio attended the Council of Carthage (525) and Fruttuoso the anti-Monothelitism Council of Carthage (646). Vina survives today as a titular bishopricStefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 102–103.J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, (Paris, 1912), p. 110. and the current bishop is Anton Jamnik, of Ljubljana.
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