Titular see of Numidia, perhaps the Numidian fortress of Tocai
mentioned about 305 B.C. by Diodorus Siculus (XX, v, 4). King
Masinissa probably captured Thugga from Carthage in the second
century B.C. A pagus under Claudius I, Thugga was dependent on
the Roman colony of Carthage. Under Marcus Aurelius it included
a pagus and a civitas; Septimius Severus erected it into the
municipium, Septimianum Aurelium liberum Thugga, which became a
colony in 261 under Gallian. Justinian built a fortress there
which is still partly preserved (Procopius, "De ædificiis", VI,
5). The existence of a pagus and a civitas explains why there
were two bishops, Saturninus and Honoratus, who assisted at the
Council of Carthage in 256. A Donatist bishop, Paschasius, went
to the Council of Carthage in 411. Thugga is now Dougga, a
village of Tunis, famous for Its ruins, among which are the
temple of the Capitol Built under Marcus Aurelius, a theatre,
three triumphal arches, Roman necropoli, and a Punic Mausoleum.
TOULOTTE, Géog, de l'Af