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Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
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Scillitan Martyrs
Christians executed by Romans in present-day Tunisia (180 AD)
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