The ancient cities of Thagaste (the modern Souk Ahras) and Hippo Regius (the modern Annaba), in eastern Algeria, were always oriented toward Carthage, where Saint Augustine, born in Thagaste in ...

One day in 370 C.E., a sixteen-year-old boy and his father went to the public baths together in the provincial city of Thagaste, in what is now Algeria.

Algeria. Date of Submission: 28/04/2025 Criteria: (ii)(iii)(vi) Category: Cultural Submitted ... Thagaste (souk Ahras) lieu de sa naissance en novembre 354, cité numide et romaine ; fut la patrie de ...

Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste, a Roman city in modern Algeria. A brilliant thinker, he initially rejected Christianity as an intellectually empty faith, despite the faithfulness of his mother.

CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2024 / 07:00 am. St. Augustine, whose feast day is today, Aug. 28, is associated most prominently with Hippo Regius, the ancient name of the modern city of Annaba in Algeria.