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M'Daourouch


Coordinates: 36°4.6′N 7°49.2′E / 36.0767°N 7.8200°E / 36.0767; 7.8200

Mdawrush is a municipality in Souk Ahras Province, Algeria, occupying the site of the Roman town of Madauros (or Madaura) in the Roman province of Numidia, whose bishopric is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.

As of the 1998 census, Mdawrush has 24,919 inhabitants, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA.

It was an old Numidian town which, having once belonged to the Kingdom of Syphax, was annexed to that of Massinissa at the close of the second Punic War. It became a Roman colony about the end of the first century and was famous for its schools.

It was the native town of Apuleius, author of The Golden Ass, and of the grammarians Nonius Marcellus and Maximus. St. Augustine studied there; through a letter which he addressed later to the inhabitants we learn that many were still pagans.


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