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Built in the 8th century, the Ribat of Sousse in Tunisia was inspired by Byzantine fortifications; the tower served as a minaret for the garrison soldiers. The List of Byzantine forts and other structures in the Maghreb lists photos of the fortresses built between 533 and 698 on the territory of the Byzantine Empire in the Maghreb. On one hand ...
By 2006 the situation had improved so the site was removed from the endangered list. [4] The first three sites were listed in 1979 and the most recent, Djerba, in 2023. [3] In addition, Tunisia has 16 sites on the tentative list. [3] The country has served on the World Heritage Committee four times. [3]
Flag Date Use Description 1987–2011: Presidential Flag of Tunisia (Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali) . A purple ground, superimposed with the white Tughra characters: Jim and Ta. The character Jim in Arabic is the first character of the word Jumhuriyya and the character Ta in Arabic is the first character of the name Tounes.
Mouna Karray (born 1970), photographer, video artist. Hédi Khayachi (1882–1948), painter; official portraitist of the Husainid court. Sabiha Al Khemir (born 1959), illustrator, writer. Nadia Khiari (born 1973), cartoonist, painter, graffiti artist, art teacher. Paul Klee (1879–1940), Swiss-German painter; visited Tunisia in 1914 and left a ...
This is a list of notable pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. ' black feet ' ), a term referring to French citizens who lived in French Algeria before independence, from 1830 to 1962. Specifically, pieds-noirs include those of European settlers descent from France or other European countries (such as Spain, Italy and Malta), who were born in ...
There are currently three living former presidents. The most recent former president to die was Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, on 19 September 2019. The presidency of Mohamed Ennaceur, who assumed the office as acting president following the death of incumbent president Beji Caid Essebsi, was the shortest in Tunisian history (90 days).
This is a list of cities and colonies of Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel, as well as cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
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