Buruni (North Africa)

The Bagradis valley became Roman after the Third Punic War about 146BC[2] and it quickly became an important region for agriculture,[3] with the rolling plains home to numerous Imperial estates.

The area around Buruni fell to the Vandal Kingdom around 423 and for a century was ruled by the Arian kings until in 533 the Orthodox Byzantines replaced them.

The Saltus Burunitanus shines a light on the social structure and lifestyles of Roman North Africa in the early empire.

[10] The community developed as an ancient Latin Rite Bishopric of the Roman province of Africa Proconsolare, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.

The only bishop of Buruni known to us, was Fausto, a Catholic mentioned at the end of the 5th century by Victor of Vita in his history of the Vandal persecution.