Augilæ, or Avarua, a titular see of Cyrenaica in Northern Africa. It was situated in an oasis in the Libyan desert which is still one of the chief stations (Audjelah, Aoudjila) on the caravan route from Cairo to Fezzan. Its forests of date-palms were famous in the time of Herodotus (IV, 172); they still crown the three small hills that rise out of an unbroken desert of red sand which in the near vicinity is strongly impregnated with salts of soda. The Moslem population is now about 10,000 and is governed by an official of the Bey of Tripoli who draws from the oasis an annual revenue of $12,000.
Lequien, Oriens Christ. (1740), II, 635-638; Smith, Dict. gee and Roman Geogr., 1, 337; Sv. John, Adventures in
Thomas J. Shahan.