Bouderies is a settlement in Kasserine, Tunisia, in North Africa, on the Algerian border north of Fériana. Map of Aïne Bou Driès in Kasserine, Tunisia. It is the site of a natural spring, Bouderies at mapcarta.com. Aïne Bou Driès at getamap.net. nearby Mount Jebel ech Chambi, one of the highest points in Tunisia (1,544 metres), and Drua, a ruined castra of the Roman province of Byzacena.Gamal Mokhtar, General History of Africa - Vol. II - Ancient Africa ( UNESCO, 2010) p553.
During late antiquity the town was seat of a Christian bishopric.Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 465.Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana, Volume I, Brescia 1816, p. 152.J. Ferron, v. Druensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. IX, 1937, col. 821. In 411, the towns bishop, Antonianus, attended the Council of Carthage with the Donatist delegation. The town survived until at least the Arab–Byzantine wars of 698AD.
The 1st Armored Division of the United States Army passed through Bouderies during World War II.George F Howe, United States Army in World War 2 - The Mediterranean -Northwest Africa. (Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014). Today the bishopric of Drua survives as a titular bishopric headed by John Joseph Jenik, auxiliary bishop of New York City. diocese entry at www.gcatholic.org
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