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Hauara

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Charles G. Herbermann and others (editors)

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Hauara, a titular see of Palestina Tertia, suffragan of Petra. Peutinger’s map locates a place of this name thirty-eight miles south of Petra (see Clermont-Ganneau in “Revue biblique”, N. §., III, 419-421). The city is also mentioned by Ptolemy (V, 16) and by the ‘“Notitia dignitatum” (ed. Boecking, 79), which mentions the garrison of equites sagitarii indigene. This Hauara, which is situated between Aila and Petra, is certainly distinct from the Hauara of Stephen of Byzantium, the Aev«) kéun of the Greeks, a harbour of the Red Sea, but it has been impossible to discover its location. It is unknown even when it became a titular see, because it formerly had no bishop, and does not figure in any episcopal “Notitiae”. It must not be confounded with Haura, a Jacobite see in Mesopotamia.

LEeQuiENn, Oriens Christianus, II, 1507.

S. Vailhé.

Trans. None. Written in English by the contributors whose signatures close each article., The Catholic Encyclopedia, An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, in fifteen volumes, 1907-1912. Public domain.

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