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Vina Vicus

Henchir-el-Maden (Barrington) · Belli bei Grambalik (Miller)

Vina Vicus calls the place a mere village, yet inscriptions found at Henchir el Maden name it the Aurelian municipium of Vina, a self-governing town from the first half of the 3rd century, and the Roman register of routes calls it a city. Its ruins include an amphitheatre, and one local official set up a statue of the she-wolf in honour of a consul. In 393 the town had a Donatist bishop, Faustinus, whom Augustine attacked. Whether the map's village really is this town is debated, since the distances do not quite fit; one suggestion places it at Belli near Grombalia instead.

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