Bir El Hafey


Bir El Hafey is a town and commune located at 34°55′48″N 9°12′00″E in the Sidi Bouzid Governorate, in Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 36,405.
Bir El Hafey, located about thirty kilometers south of Sidi Bouzid, in the southern foothills of the Tunisian ridge. Attached to the governorate of Sidi Bouzid, it is a municipality with 6,475 inhabitants in 20142. It is also the capital of a delegation.
It is in crossroads position on the Kairouan-Gafsa axis because crossed by the RN3 while being connected to Sidi Bouzid, the chief town of the governorate.

History of Nara

Bir El Hafey is the modern site of the Ancient, notably Roman, city of Nara.

Ecclesiastical history

Nara was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Hadrumetum, but faded.
There are three bishops documented from Nara.
The diocese was nominally in 1925 restored as a Latin titular bishopric.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest rank :
In 2004 the population of the town was 5589, and in 2014 this had increased to 6475.