Sutunura was a Roman era civitasLeslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010 ) p250.Sutunurca at trismegistos.org. in the Roman province of Africa and is tentatively identified with ruins near Aïn-El-Askerm, Rdir-Es-Soltan in modern Tunisia.Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 32 E4.Alan Bowman, Andrew Wilson, The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment, and Production (Oxford University Press Oxford, 2013) p145. Titular Episcopal See of Sutunurca, at Gcatholic.org.(36° 34' 29" north, 9°59'29" east)Ain el Asker map at maplandia.com. 50 km from Carthage. The location being confirmed with inscription remains in situLeslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p250 and is nearby to Koudiat es Somra, Jebel Barrou and Ghedir Soltane. Aïn el Asker at mapcarta.com.
History Sutunurca goes back to a Libyan foundation. This hypothesis is underpinned not only by the name itself but also by a tumulus close to Djebel Barrou. Probably Sutunurca belonged to the area of the veteran colony Uthina.
Even under Septimius Severus, Sutunurca was still a civitas.
When Africa Proconsularis was divided in the late empire, Sutunura found itself in the new province of Zeugitana.
Remains BabelonE. 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) mentions a multitude of ruins and counts architectural elements as well as inscriptions to the finds. He also mentions the remains of a Byzantine fortress. JaidiH. Jaïdi, Sutunurca II. "Water supply to the city", Africa, 11-12, 1992–1993, 208-241 has dealt with the hydraulic systems of the ancient city. Antique buildings have also been preserved at N'faïedh, but MaurinL. Maurin – J. Peyras, Romanisation in the region of Bir M'cherga, CahTun 43, 155-156, 1991, 123-126; emphasized in 1989 that only a small part was visible.
Bishopric In antiquity, Sutunura was the seat of an ancient Christian bishopric, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.J. Mesnage, L'Afrique chrétienne, Paris 1912, p. 23. we know only one bishop of Sutunura, Repositus, who took part at the Council of Carthage (256) convoked by St. Cyprian to address the problem of the Lapsi.Cipriano, The Letters of St. Cyprian of Carthage, Volume 3 p254. Morcelli mistakenly attributes Repositus as the bishop of Tuburnica.
The Diocese of Sutunurca (in Latin Rite Sutunurcensis) survives today as a home, suppressed and titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church. Sutunurcensis, at catholic-hierarchy.org. Titular Episcopal See of Sutunurca, at Gcatholic.org. The current bishop is Léopold Ouédraogo, of Ouagadougou.Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Number 17,524
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