city
Carthage
near Tunis, Tunisia
36.853, 10.323
Attested. The bishops and councils are documented. The size of the pre-Tertullian community is less clear.
Roman Africa's leading city and the home of Tertullian and Cyprian. North African councils here shaped Latin debates about baptism, the lapsed, and, later, the biblical book list.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
397. Councils of Carthage list the canonical books (with Hippo 393).
African Code canon XXIV (NPNF2 14) · Verified in the source note