The Lake of Tunis (Arabic: بحيرة تونس Buḥayra Tūnis; French: Lac de Tunis) is a natural lagoon located between the Tunisian capital city of Tunis and...
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Tunis (Arabic: تونس Tūnis) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has...
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The Battle of Lake Tunis was a series of engagements of the Third Punic War fought in 149 BC between the Carthaginians and the Roman Republic. Roman consuls...
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seaplane base in Tunisia was built on the Lake of Tunis for the seaplanes of Compagnie Aéronavale. The Tunis Airfield opened in 1938, serving around 5...
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Tunis Lake is a private small reservoir located south-southeast of the hamlet of Bovina Center in Delaware County, New York. Tunis Lake drains southwest...
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Carthage (redirect from Carthage (Tunis))
eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most...
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The conquest of Tunis occurred in 1535 when the Habsburg Emperor Charles V and his allies wrestled the city away from the control of the Ottoman Empire...
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The Hôtel du Lac (English: Lake Hotel) is a hotel in Tunis. The building was designed in the Brutalist style by the Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani...
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Medjerda River (category Rivers of Algeria)
before emptying into the Gulf of Tunis and Lake of Tunis. With a length of 450 km (280 mi), it is the longest river of Tunisia. It is also known as the...
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in North Africa located on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis across from the center of what is now Tunis in Tunisia. Though Josephus associated the...
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a link with the Lake of Tunis due to the nature of the sediments found. Serge Lancel has also documented that the level of Lake Tunis was significantly...
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Avenue Habib Bourguiba (category Streets in Tunis)
roundabout with Lake of Tunis at the eastern end. Many of the important monuments are located along this avenue, including Cathedral of St. Vincent de...
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Tunis Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية تونس Wilāyat Tūnis pronounced [ˈtuːnɪs]; French: Gouvernorat de Tunis) is the smallest and most populated of...
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Ottoman Tunisia (redirect from Eyalet of Tunis)
also known as the Regency of Tunis, refers to the Ottoman presence in Ifriqiya from the 16th to 19th centuries, when Tunis was officially integrated into...
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Tunisia (redirect from Republic of Tunisia)
northeastern coast, Tunis is the capital and largest city of the country, which is itself named after Tunis. The official language of Tunisia is Modern...
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the throne of the Vandal King. He then set about rebuilding the fortifications of the city, and his fleet sought shelter in the Lake of Tunis, five miles...
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(province) of Tunisia 6362 Tunis, an asteroid Beylik of Tunis, a monarchy in Northern Africa between 1705 and 1881 Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia Lake of Tunis, a natural...
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leading centre of Punic trade and leadership. It had the advantageous position of being situated on the Lake of Tunis and the outlet of the Medjerda River...
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bridge spanning the lake of Tunis, more precisely the channel as well as the expressway and the Tunis-Goulette-Marsa line linking Tunis to La Goulette. The...
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Chikly (category Lake islands of Africa)
northern part of Lake of Tunis which houses Fort Santiago Chikly, a former Roman citadel which was reconstructed by the Spanish Governor of Goletta, Luys...
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Chergui Gharbi Zembra Ichkeul Lake Lake Tritonis (former lake) Lake of Tunis (lagoon) Tunisian salt lakes Chott el Djerid (salt lake) Atlas Mountains Aurès Mountains...
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(Bordj Moussa) in Béjaïa La Goulette Spanish fort of Chikly Island on the Lake of Tunis Red Castle of Tripoli The Presidio de Santiago, founded in 1593...
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Carthage, Missouri (redirect from History of Carthage, Missouri)
Carthage, an ancient city on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. By the time of the American Civil War, there were over 500 residents...
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The Tunis Metro (Tunis light metro, also Tunis light rail, Tunisian Arabic: المترو الخفيف لمدينة تونس, el-metrū el-khfīf li-mdīnat tūnis) is the light...
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population. The fleet is stationed in the Lake of Tunis. December 15 – Battle of Tricamarum: Gelimer assembles an army of about 50,000 men at Bulla Regia (Numidia)...
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flows east through the third of the country with reliable rivers, the north. It empties into the Gulf of Tunis and Lake of Tunis. At 450 km (280 mi) it is...
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Vandalic War (redirect from Byzantine conquest of North Africa)
ordered to be ready for his own victorious return, the fleet entered the Lake of Tunis and the army was billeted throughout the city. The remaining Vandals...
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The American Tunis or Tunis is an endangered American breed of fat-tailed sheep. It derives from Tunisian Barbarin sheep imported to the United States...
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La Goulette (category Communes of Tunisia)
port of Tunis, Tunisia. La Goulette is located at around 36°49′5″N 10°18′18″E / 36.81806°N 10.30500°E / 36.81806; 10.30500 on a sandbar between Lake Tūnis...
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European enclaves in North Africa before 1830 (category History of North Africa)
France Genoese fort of Tabarka La Goulette Spanish fort of Chikly Island on the Lake of Tunis Borj El Kebir in Djerba Red Castle of Tripoli Portuguese...
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