Tigisis in Numidia

Under the Roman Empire, Tigisis was a colony in the province of Numidia.[2]

The account in Procopius's History of the Vandal War of an ancient Punic inscription near the town, which read "We fled here from the face of Joshua the Robber, son of Nun",[3] is almost certainly hokum, though it is uncertain whether the passage represents Procopius's own invention, his overly credulous reliance on a local guide, or a garbling of earlier Jewish traditions elsewhere.[4]

The town of Tigisis was the seat of a bishopric during the Roman, Vandal, and Byzantine eras.[5] The persecution under Diocletian appears to have reached its height in Tigisis during February 304.

Although the diocese ceased to function in the early 7th century, a titular continuation (Latin: Tigistanus in Numidia; Italian: Tigisi di Numidia) was established by the Roman Catholic Church in 1933.