Nicives, identifiable with N'Gaous in Batna Province, Algeria, was an ancient Roman town of the Roman province of Numidia.
[1] The town was the seat of a late antiquity Christian bishopric[2][3] There are three bishops known from Niceives.
The town lasted as a legal entity, through the Byzantine period, till the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century.
Today Nicives survives as a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church and the current bishop is Andrzej Jerzy Zglejszewski, auxiliary bishop of Rockville.
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