Melzi
Melzi was a civitas of the Roman Empire during late antiquity. It was also known as Meditanus.
The town was in the Medjerda River valley of northern Tunisia. It was a civitas of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis,
And the town has been tentatively identified with ruins at the Oued-Melzi Wadi and the Bagrada river confluence.
In antiquity the town was also the seat of a Christian bishopric, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Carthage.
There are two documented bishops of this African dioceses.
The town was mentioned by Augustine and Optatus
