Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

, officially the Tunisian Republic, is the northernmost

North Africa

North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...

 country in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. It is a Maghreb

Maghreb

The Maghreb is the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. It includes five countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania and the disputed territory of Western Sahara...

 country and is bordered by Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 to the west, Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 to the north and east. Its area is almost 165000 square kilometres (63,706.9 sq mi), with an estimated population of just over 10.4 million. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

 located in the north-east.

Tunisia is the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain

Atlas Mountains

The Atlas Mountains is a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco. The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert...

 range. The south of the country is composed of the Sahara desert, with much of the remainder consisting of particularly fertile soil and 1300 kilometres (807.8 mi) of coastline. Both played a prominent role in ancient times, first with the famous Phoenicia

Phoenicia

Phoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...

n city of Carthage

Carthage

Carthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...

, then as the Roman

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

 province of Africa, which was known as the "bread basket" of Rome. In modern times, starting in December 2010, Tunisia was the initial location of the 2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests

2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests

The Arab Spring , otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010...

, which spread in a revolutionary wave

Revolutionary wave

A revolutionary wave is a series of revolutions occurring in various locations in a similar time period. In many cases, an initial revolution inspires other "affiliate revolutions" with similar aims....

 to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Djibouti, Iran, Yemen and Syria by April 2011.

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• Africa Province
  Africa Province
  The Roman province of Africa was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, and the small Mediterranean coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor...
  
  
• Aghlabid Dynasty
• Almohad Dynasty
• Arab Islamic Republic
  Arab Islamic Republic
  The Arab Islamic Republic was a proposed unification of Tunisia and Libya in 1974, agreed upon by Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba. The proposal was never implemented.- Regional context :...
  
  
• Ariana Governorate
  Ariana Governorate
  Ariana Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It has a population of 422,000 . The capital is Aryanah.The following cities and towns are located in the Ariana Governorate:...
  
  
• Atlas Mountains
  Atlas Mountains
  The Atlas Mountains is a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco. The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert...
  
  
• Aurès Mountains
  Aurès Mountains
  The Aurès , or Aurea, refers to an Amazigh language-speaking region in East Algeria, as well as an extension of the Atlas mountain range that lies to the east of the Saharan Atlas in eastern Algeria and northwestern Tunisia...
  
  

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• Barbary pirate
• Barbary Slave Trade
  Barbary Slave Trade
  The Barbary Slave Trade refers to the slave markets which flourished on the Barbary Coast, or modern day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and western Libya between the 16th and 19th centuries. These markets prospered while the states were nominally under Ottoman rule, but in reality were mostly autonomous...
  
  
• Barbary Wars
  Barbary Wars
  The Barbary Wars were a series of wars between the United States of America and the Barbary States of North Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At issue was the Barbary pirates' demand of tribute from American merchant vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. If ships failed to pay, pirates...
  
  
• Battle of Ad Decimum
  Battle of Ad Decimum
  The Battle of Ad Decimum took place on September 13, 533 between the armies of the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, and the Eastern Roman Empire , under the command of general Belisarius. This event and events in the following year are sometimes jointly referred to as the Battle of Carthage, one...
  
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• Battle of Adys
  Battle of Adys
  The Battle of Adys was fought in 255 BC between Carthage and a Roman army led by Marcus Atilius Regulus. Regulus inflicted a crushing defeat upon the Carthaginians, who then sued for peace...
  
   (255 BC)
• Battle of Cape Bon
  Battle of Cape Bon
  The naval Battle of Cape Bon took place on December 13, 1941 during the Second World War, between two Italian light cruisers and an Allied destroyer flotilla off Cape Bon, Tunisia...
  
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• Battle of Carthage
  Battle of Carthage (238)
  The Battle of Carthage was fought in 238 between a Roman army loyal to Emperor Maximinus Thrax and the forces of Emperors Gordian I and Gordian II....
  
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• Battle of Carthage
  Battle of Carthage (698)
  The Battle of Carthage was fought in 698 AD between a Byzantine expeditionary force and the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate. Having lost Carthage to the Muslims, Emperor Leontius sent the navy under the command of John the Patrician and the droungarios Tiberius Apsimarus. They entered the harbor...
  
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• Battle of Carthage
  Battle of Carthage (c.149 BC)
  The Battle of Carthage was the major act of the Third Punic War between the Phoenician city of Carthage in Africa and the Roman Republic...
  
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• Battle of Djerba
  Battle of Djerba
  The naval Battle of Djerba took place in May 1560 near the island of Djerba, Tunisia in which the Ottomans under Piyale Pasha's command overwhelmed a large joint European fleet, chiefly Spanish forces, sinking half its ships.-Background:...
  
   (1560)
• Battle of Ruspina
  Battle of Ruspina
  The Battle of Ruspina was fought on January 4, 46 BC in the Roman Republic, between the Republican forces of the Optimates and forces loyal to Julius Caesar...
  
   (46 BC)
• Battle of Thapsus
  Battle of Thapsus
  The Battle of Thapsus took place on April 6, 46 BC near Thapsus . The Republican forces of the Optimates, led by Quintus Caecillius Metellus Scipio, clashed with the veteran forces loyal to Julius Caesar.-Prelude:...
  
   (46 BC)
• Battle of the Great Plains
  Battle of the Great Plains
  The Battle of the Great plains was a battle fought between Scipio Africanus of Rome and a combined Carthaginian and Numidian army late in the Second Punic War, designed as diversionary tactic by Rome to disrupt Hannibal's attack on Italy...
  
   (203 BC)
• Battle of Tricamarum (533)
• Battle of Tunis
  Battle of Tunis
  The Battle of Tunis, also known as the Battle of Bagrades, between the Roman Republic and Carthage occurred in the spring of 255 BC during the First Punic War. The battle ended in a decisive Carthaginian victory.-Prelude:...
  
   (255 BC)
• Battle of Zama
  Battle of Zama
  The Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal...
  
   (202 BC)
• Béja Governorate
  Béja Governorate
  Béja Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It covers an area of 3,558 km² and has a population of 305,000 . The capital is Béja....
  
  
• Ben Arous Governorate
  Ben Arous Governorate
  Ben Arous Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It covers an area of 761 km² and has a population of 506,000...
  
  
• Berber Jews
  Berber Jews
  Berber Jews are the Berber-speaking Jewish communities which used to live in certain parts of Atlas mountains in Morocco. Their origins are not clear as one theory builds the case for "Judeo-cized Berbers" while another defends the "Berber-ized Jews" thesis....
  
  
• Bizerte Governorate
  Bizerte Governorate
  Bizerte Governorate is the northernmost of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It covers an area of 3,685 km² and has a population of 524,000 . The capital is Bizerte...
  
  
• Borj El Amri Airport
• Bourse de Tunis
  Bourse de Tunis
  The Bourse des Valeurs Mobilières de Tunis or Bourse de Tunis is a stock exchange based in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1969, and currently lists around 50 stocks....
  
  
• Brik
  Brik
  Brik or Brick is a Tunisian derivative of the börek consisting of thin warka pastry around a filling commonly deep fried. The best-known version is the egg brik, a whole egg in a triangular pastry pocket with chopped onion, tuna, harissa and parsley.Brik pastry is made by slapping a sticky lump...
  
  

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• Cap Bon
  Cap Bon
  Cap Bon , also Watan el-kibli, is a peninsula in far northeastern Tunisia. It is located at around . It is surrounded by the Gulf of Tunis in the north. Towns located on the peninsula include Nabeul, Kelibia and Menzel Temime. The ruins of the Punic town Kerkouane are located here....
  
   (also known as Sharik Peninsula)
• Carthage
  Carthage
  Carthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...
  
  
• Carthago delenda est
  Carthago delenda est
  "Carthago delenda est" or the fuller "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam" or "Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam" are Latin political phrases which were popular in the Roman Republic during the latter years of the Punic Wars against Carthage...
  
  
• Central Bank of Tunisia
  Central Bank of Tunisia
  The Central Bank of Tunisia is the central bank of Tunisia. The bank is located in Tunis and its current governor is Mustapha Kamel Nabli, who replaced Taoufik Baccar on 17 January 2011.-History:...
  
  
• Chamber of Councilors
• Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia
  Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia
  The Chamber of Deputies is the lower chamber of the Parliament of Tunisia, the bicameral legislative branch of the government of Tunisia. It has 189 seats and members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. 20% of the seats are reserved for the opposition. Elections are held in the...
  
  
• Checkpoint 303
  Checkpoint 303
  Checkpoint 303 is a non-profit musical collective from the emerging Arabic and Middle-eastern underground electronica scene. The activist musical project was launched by Tunisian SC Mocha and Palestinian SC Yosh in 2004 and has secured an avant-garde position on the Arabic underground music scene...
  
  
• Chergui
  Chergui
  Chergui is the largest of the Kerkennah Islands off the north coast of Tunisia. The name means "Easterner" in Arabic. The main town is Remla. The island has an area of 110 km2. The second largest island of the group, Gharbi, means "Westerner" in Arabic....
  
  
• Chermoula
  Chermoula
  Chermoula or charmoula is a marinade used in Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian cooking. It is usually used to flavor fish or seafood, but it can be used on other meats or vegetables....
  
  
• Chott el Djerid
  Chott el Djerid
  Chott el Djerid , also spelt Shaţţ al Jarīd, Sciott Gerid, and Shott el Jerid, is a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia.-Geography:The bottom of Chott el Djerid is located between 10 and 25 meters above sea level....
  
   (salt lake
  Salt lake
  A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water which has a concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes . In some cases, salt lakes have a higher concentration of salt than sea water, but such lakes would also be termed hypersaline lakes...
  
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• Coat of arms of Tunisia
  Coat of arms of Tunisia
  The coat of arms of Tunisia displays a ship along with a lion holding a sword , and a balance . In the centre, just under the ship, is the national motto written in Arabic: Freedom - Order - Justice . The central emblem of the national flag is seen above the shield. The background is gold in all...
  
  
• Confédération Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens
  Confédération Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens
  Confédération Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens was a central trade union organisation in Tunisia. Founded in 1924, it was the first Tunisian trade union central. However, the French colonial authorities soon clamped down on the organization. Several of its leaders were arrested. Six of them,...
  
  
• Conquest of Tunis
  Conquest of Tunis
  The Conquest of Tunis in 1535 was an attack on Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire, by the Spanish Empire.-Background:In 1533, Suleiman ordered Hayreddin Barbarossa, whom he had summoned from Algiers, to build a large war fleet in the arsenal of Constantinople...
  
   (1535)
• Constitution of Tunisia
  Constitution of Tunisia
  The Constitution of Tunisia is the supreme law of the Tunisian Republic. The Constitution is the framework for the organization of the Tunisian government and for the relationship of the federal government with the governates, citizens, and all people within Tunisia...
  
  
• Constitutional Democratic Rally
  Constitutional Democratic Rally
  The Constitutional Democratic Rally , also referred to by its French acronym RCD, formerly called Neo Destour then Socialist Destourian Party, was the governing party in Tunisia. The party was suspended by the minister of interior on February 6th awaiting a decision on its dissolution by judicial...
  
  
• Court of Cassation (Tunisia)
  Court of Cassation (Tunisia)
  The Court of Cassation is the highest court in Tunisia. It is based on the model of the French Court of Cassation.-See also:*Politics of Tunisia*Court of cassation...
  
  
• Couscous
  Couscous
  Couscous is a Berber dish of semolina traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it. Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Cuisine of Tunisia
  Cuisine of Tunisia
  Tunisian cuisine, the cuisine of Tunisia, is a blend of Mediterranean and desert dwellers' culinary traditions. Its distinctive spicy fieriness comes from neighbouring Mediterranean countries and the many civilizations which have ruled the land now known as Tunisia: Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs,...
  
  
• Culture of Tunisia
  Culture of Tunisia
  The culture of Tunisia is a product of more than three thousand years of history and an important multi-ethnic influx. Ancient Tunisia was a major civilization crossing through history; different cultures, civilizations and multiple successive dynasties contributed to the culture of the country...
  
  

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• Demographics of Tunisia
  Demographics of Tunisia
  The majority of modern Tunisians are Arab-Berber orArabized Berber, and are speakers of Tunisian Arabic. However, there is also a small population of Berbers located in the Jabal Dahar mountains in the South East and on the island of Jerba...
  
  
• Destour
  Destour
  The Constitutional Liberal Party , most commonly known as Destour, was a Tunisian political party, founded in 1920, which had as its the goal to liberate Tunisia from French colonial control....
  
  
• Diocese of Africa
  Diocese of Africa
  The Diocese of Africa was a diocese of the later Roman Empire, incorporating the provinces of North Africa, except Mauretania Tingitana. Its seat was at Carthage, and it was subordinate to the Praetorian prefecture of Italy....
  
  
• Djebel Zaghouan
  Djebel Zaghouan
  Djebel Zaghouan is a mountain and the highest point in Eastern Tunisia at 1,295 m. The mountain is located in an area of National Park.The town of Zaghouan is located below on its northern slope...
  
  
• Djerba - Zarzis International Airport
• Djerba
  Djerba
  Djerba , also transliterated as Jerba or Jarbah, is, at 514 km², the largest island of North Africa, located in the Gulf of Gabes, off the coast of Tunisia.-Description:...
  
  

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• Economy of Tunisia
  Economy of Tunisia
  Tunisia is in the process of economic reform and liberalization after decades of heavy state direction and participation in the economy. Prudent economic and fiscal planning have resulted in moderate but sustained growth for over a decade. Tunisia's economic growth historically has depended on oil,...
  
  
• Elections in Tunisia
  Elections in Tunisia
  Prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution, Elections in Tunisia were held every five to six years, and elected both the president and members of both legislative branches to the national government of the Republic of Tunisia...
  
  
• Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activites Petroliere
  Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activites Petroliere
  Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activités Pétrolières is a state-owned industrial and commercial company in Tunisia directly in charge of the petroleum sector as well as the state's partnerships with foreign exploration and production operators.-Overview:...
  
   (state-owned
  Government-owned corporation
  A government-owned corporation, state-owned company, state-owned entity, state enterprise, publicly owned corporation, government business enterprise, or parastatal is a legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of an owner government...
  
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• Fatimid Dynasty
• Fédération Tunisienne de Football
  Fédération Tunisienne de Football
  The Fédération Tunisienne de Football is the governing body of football in Tunisia. It was established in 1956.-Clubs:Clubs that have participated in the Division Nationale de Football between 1956 and 1996:*AMS Association Mégrine Sportive...
  
  
• First Barbary War
  First Barbary War
  The First Barbary War , also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War, was the first of two wars fought between the United States and the North African Berber Muslim states known collectively as the Barbary States...
  
   (1801–1805)
• Flag of Tunisia
  Flag of Tunisia
  The flag of Tunisia, adopted as national flag in 1959, was in origin the naval ensign of the kingdom of Tunis, adopted either in 1831 or 1835 by Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud...
  
  
• Foreign relations of Tunisia
  Foreign relations of Tunisia
  Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies...
  
  
• French occupation of Tunisia
  French occupation of Tunisia
  The French conquest of Tunisia occurred in two phases in 1881: the first consisting of the invasion and securing of the country before the signing of a treaty of protection, and the second consisting in the suppression of a rebellion...
  
  

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• Gabès Governorate
  Gabès Governorate
  Gabès Governorate is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is located in south-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of and has a population of 343,000...
  
  
• Gafsa Governorate
  Gafsa Governorate
  Gafsa Governorate is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in central Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 8,990 km² and has a population of 324,000 . The capital is Gafsa....
  
  
• Galite Islands
  Galite Islands
  The Galite Islands are a rocky group of islands of volcanic origin that belong to Bizerte Governorate, northern Tunisia...
  
  
• Geography of Tunisia
  Geography of Tunisia
  Tunisia is a country located in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Libya. Its geographic coordinates are . Tunisia occupies an area of 163,610 square kilometres, of which 8,250 are water...
  
  
• Gharbi
• Governorates of Tunisia
  Governorates of Tunisia
  ||Tunisia is divided into 24 governorates : Ariana Béja Ben Arous Bizerte Gabès Gafsa Jendouba Kairouan Kasserine Kebili Kef Mahdia Manouba Medenine Monastir Nabeul Sfax Sidi Bouzid Siliana Sousse Tataouine...
  
  
• Gulf of Gabès
  Gulf of Gabès
  The Gulf of Gabès is a gulf on Tunisia's east coast in the Mediterranean Sea, off North Africa. The gulf roughly spans the coast from modern day the town of Mahrès in Sfax Gouvernorate to Djerba...
  
  
• Gulf of Hammamet
  Gulf of Hammamet
  Gulf of Hammamet is a large gulf in northeastern Tunisia. It is located at around , south of the Cap Bon peninsula. To the other side of the Cape Bon Peninsula is the Gulf of Tunis. Hammamet, popular vacation resort city lies at the northwestern edge of the gulf....
  
  
• Gulf of Tunis
  Gulf of Tunis
  Gulf of Tunis is a large gulf in northeastern Tunisia. It is located at around . Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, lies at the southern edge of the Gulf, as have a series of settled places over the last three millennia....
  
  

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• Habib Bourguiba
  Habib Bourguiba
  Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian statesman, the Founder and the first President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 until 7 November 1987...
  
  
• Hafsid Dynasty
  Hafsid dynasty
  The Hafsids were a Berber dynasty ruling Ifriqiya from 1229 to 1574. Their territories were stretched from east of modern Algeria to west of modern Libya during their zenith.-History:...
  
  
• Hamed Karoui
  Hamed Karoui
  Hamed Karoui was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 September 1989 to 17 November 1999. From 1986 to 1987 he was Minister of Youth and Sports and from 1988 to 1989 he was Minister of Justice. He was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party.-References:...
  
  
• Harissa
  Harissa
  Harissa is a Tunisian hot chili sauce commonly eaten in North Africa whose main ingredients are piri piri , serrano peppers and other hot chili peppers and spices such as garlic paste, coriander, red chili powder, caraway as well as some vegetable or olive oil...
  
  
• Hedi Amara Nouira
  Hedi Amara Nouira
  Hédi Amara Nouira was a Tunisian politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Tunisia between 1970 and 1980....
  
  
• Hédi Baccouche
  Hédi Baccouche
  Hédi Baccouche was the Prime Minister of Tunisia from November 7, 1987 to September 27, 1989. Baccouche led the Socialist Destourian Party until it changed its name to the Constitutional Democratic Rally in 1988.- References :...
  
  
• History of the Jews in Tunisia
  History of the Jews in Tunisia
  The history of the Jews in Tunisia goes back to Roman times. Before 1948, the Jewish population of Tunisia reached a peak of 110,000. From the 1950s, half this number left for Israel and the other half for France...
  
  
• History of Tunisia
  History of Tunisia
  The History of Tunisia is subdivided into the following articles:*Outlines of early Tunisia*History of Punic era Tunisia*History of Roman era Tunisia*History of early Islamic Tunisia*History of medieval Tunisia*History of Ottoman era Tunisia...
  
  
• Hizb ut-Tahrir
  Hizb ut-Tahrir
  Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...
  
  
• Humat al-Hima
• Husainid Dynasty
  Husainid Dynasty
  The Husainid Dynasty is the former ruling dynasty of Tunisia originally of Cretan origin. They came to power under Al-Husayn I ibn Ali at-Turki in 1705 replacing the Muradid Dynasty. After taking power the Husainids ruled as Beys with succession to the throne determined by age with the oldest...
  
  

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• Jebel ech Chambi
  Jebel ech Chambi
  Jebel ech Chambi is the highest mountain in Tunisia at 1544m. It stands above the city of Kasserine in western central Tunisia and is covered by a pine forest....
  
   (highest mountain in Tunisia–(1544 m (5,066 ft))
• Jendouba Governorate
  Jendouba Governorate
  Jendouba Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 3,102 km² and has a population of 417,000...
  
  

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• Kairouan Governorate
  Kairouan Governorate
  Kairouan Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is an inland province, situated in the centre of the country. It covers an area of 6,712 km² and has a population of 546,209...
  
  
• Karthago Airlines
  Karthago Airlines
  Karthago Airlines is a privately owned airline based in Tunis, Tunisia, operating scheduled charter flights to Europe. Its main base is Djerba-Zarzis Airport, but most of the flights are out of Tunis-Carthage International Airport.-History:...
  
  
• Kasserine Governorate
  Kasserine Governorate
  Kasserine Governorate , sometimes spelt Casrein, is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in west-central Tunisia on the frontier with Algeria. It covers an area of 8,066 km² and has a population of 412,278...
  
  
• Kebili Governorate
  Kebili Governorate
  Kebili Governorate is the second largest of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in south-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of and had a population of 143,218 at the 2004 census. The capital is Kebili.-Geography:...
  
  
• Kef Governorate
  Kef Governorate
  Kef Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,965 km² and has a population of 259,000...
  
  
• Kerkennah Islands
  Kerkennah Islands
  Kerkennah Islands are a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes, at . The Islands are low-lying being no more than 13 metres above sea level. The main islands are Chergui and Gharbi. The archipelago has an area of 160 km2 and a population of 14,400...
  
  

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• Lablabi
  Lablabi
  Lablabi is a Tunisian dish based on chick peas in a thin garlic and cumin-flavoured soup, served over small pieces of stale crusty bread. It is commonly eaten in cheap restaurants...
  
  
• Lake of Tunis
  Lake of Tunis
  The Lake of Tunis is a natural lagoon located between the Tunisian capital city of Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis . The lake covers a total of 37 square kilometres, in contrast to its size its depth is very shallow...
  
   (lagoon
  Lagoon
  A lagoon is a body of shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the sea by some form of barrier. The EU's habitat directive defines lagoons as "expanses of shallow coastal salt water, of varying salinity or water volume, wholly or partially separated from the sea by sand banks or shingle,...
  
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• Lake Tritonis
  Lake Tritonis
  Lake Tritonis was a large body of fresh water in northern Africa that was described in many ancient texts. Classical-era Greek writers placed the lake in what today is southern Tunisia. In details of the late myths and personal observations related by these historians, the lake was said to be named...
  
   (former lake)
• List of airlines of Tunisia
• List of airports in Tunisia
• List of Beys of Tunis
• List of cities in Tunisia
• Diplomatic missions of Tunisia
• List of political parties in Tunisia
• List of Presidents of Tunisia
• List of Tunis Metro stations

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• Mahdia campaign
  Mahdia campaign
  The Mahdia campaign of 1087 was an attack on the North African town of Mahdia by armed ships from Genoa and Pisa in northern Italy. It had been prompted by the actions of its ruler Tamim as a pirate in waters off the Italian peninsula, along with his involvement in Sicily fighting the Norman...
  
   (1087)
• Mahdia Governorate
  Mahdia Governorate
  Mahdia Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in central-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,966 km² and has a population of 378,000...
  
  
• Makroudh
  Makroudh
  Makroud is a type of pastry of Tunisian origin eaten in North African countries such as Tunisia, Algeria and in some parts of Libya.Makroudh are often filled with dates or almonds....
  
  
• Manouba Governorate
  Manouba Governorate
  Manouba Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It has a population of 336,000 , and an area of 1,137 km2...
  
  
• Medenine Governorate
  Medenine Governorate
  Medenine is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in south-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 8,588 km² and had a population of 432,503 at the 2004 census...
  
  
• Medjerda River
  Medjerda River
  The Mejerda River is a river in Algeria and Tunisia. With a length of 450 km it is the longest river of Tunisia. It originates in northeastern Algeria and then flows eastwards to Tunisia, then entering the Gulf of Utica of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   (longest river of Tunisia)
• Merguez
  Merguez
  Merguez is a red, spicy mutton- or beef-based fresh sausage in North African cuisine. It is also popular in the Middle East, and Europe.Merguez is a fresh sausage made with lamb, beef, or a mixture stuffed into a lamb-intestine casing...
  
  
• Métro léger de Tunis
  Métro léger de Tunis
  The Métro léger de Tunis is an expanding public transportation network for the Tunis area that was started in 1985...
  
  
• Mezwed
  Mezwed
  Mezwed is a genre of popular traditional music based on oriental rhythms, believed by Tunisians to be completely different from Egyptian Saahbi music. It incorporates traditional Tunisian drums called Darbouka and a kind of bagpipe called a mizwad with a bag made from ewe's leather. Usually it is...
  
  
• Mohamed Ghannouchi
  Mohamed Ghannouchi
  Mohamed Ghannouchi was the Prime Minister of Tunisia and was self-proclaimed acting President of the country for a few hours starting 14 January 2011, under Article 56 of the Constitution of Tunisia...
  
  
• Mohammed Mzali
  Mohammed Mzali
  Mohammed Mzali was a Tunisian politician.Mzali was born in Monastir, Tunisia in 1925. He served as Prime Minister from his appointment by President Habib Bourguiba until his dismissal in 1986 amid government-mandated price increases and subsequent rioting....
  
  
• Monastir - Habib Bourguiba International Airport
• Monastir Governorate
  Monastir Governorate
  Monastir Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 1,019 km² and has a population of 456,000...
  
  
• Mouvement d'Unité Populaire
  Mouvement d'Unité Populaire
  Mouvement d'Unité Populaire , a political party in Tunisia. MUP was formed as a leftist split from the ruling party in 1973. At that time MUP emerged as the major opposition force in the country. MUP later split into two factions. One of them turned more moderate and became the Party of People's...
  
  
• Movement Ettajdid
• Movement of Socialist Democrats
  Movement of Socialist Democrats
  The Movement of Social Democrats is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It was the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies, behind the dominant Constitutional Democratic Rally, with sixteen seats....
  
  
• Mrazig
  Mrazig
  The Mrazig are a previously nomadic people who live in and around the town of Douz, Tunisia. Numbering around 50,000 they are the descendants of the Banu Sulaym tribe who left the Arabian peninsula in the eighth century. They lived in Egypt, then Libya ,and finally arrived in Tunisia in the...
  
  
• Music of Tunisia
  Music of Tunisia
  Tunisia is a North African country with a predominantly Arabic-speaking population. The country is best known for malouf, a kind of music imported from Andalusia after the Spanish conquest in the 15th century...
  
  

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• Nabeul Governorate
  Nabeul Governorate
  Nabeul Governorate is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,788 km² and has a population of 694,000 . The capital is Nabeul.-Municipalities:...
  
  
• Neo Destour
  Neo Destour
  The New Constitutional Liberal Party , most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisian political party that was founded by a group of nationalist politicians during the French protectorate.-History:...
  
  
• Nichan Iftikhar
  Nichan Iftikhar
  Nichan Iftikhar or Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar or Nişan-i İftihar , was an Ottoman and Tunisian honorary order founded in 1835 by Al-Mustafa ibn Mahmud...
  
   (order
  Order (decoration)
  An order or order of merit is a visible honour, awarded by a government, dynastic house or international organization to an individual, usually in recognition of distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. The distinction between orders and decorations is somewhat vague, except that most...
  
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• Northern Berber languages
  Northern Berber languages
  The Northern Berber languages form a dialect continuum across the Maghreb that constitute a branch of the Berber language subgroup of the Afroasiatic family...
  
  
• Nouvelair
  Nouvelair
  Nouvelair Limited Company is a Tunisian airline with its registered office in Tunis, while its head office in the Dhkila Tourist Zone in Monastir, near the Hôtel Sahara Beach. The airline operates tourist charters from European cities to Tunisian holiday resorts...
  
  
• Numhyd
  Numhyd
  Numhyd is an oil company founded on 4 April 2003, jointly owned and managed by Algeria's SONATRACH and Tunisia's ETAP, who each own 50%. It is registered in Jersey, with offices in Algiers and Tunis. Its operations include oil fields in the Illizi basin and the Kaboudia area offshore in Tunisia...
  
  

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• Party of People's Unity
  Party of People's Unity
  The Party of People's Unity is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It is socialist and had 7 members in the 1999 Tunisian parliament. At the 2004 legislative elections, the party won 3.6 % of the popular vote and 11 out of 189 seats. The same day, its candidate Mohamed Bouchiha, won 3.8 % at...
  
  
• Politics of Tunisia
  Politics of Tunisia
  The politics of Tunisia function within a framework of a republic organized under a constitution, with a President serving as head of state, Prime Minister as head of government, a bicameral legislature and a court system influenced by French civil law...
  
  
• Prime Minister of Tunisia
  Prime Minister of Tunisia
  The Prime Minister of the Tunisian Republic is the head of government of Tunisia. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Tunisia...
  
  
• Progressive Democratic Party (Tunisia)
  Progressive Democratic Party (Tunisia)
  The Progressive Democratic Party , also referred to by its acronym PDP, is a secular liberal political party in Tunisia. It was founded under the name of Progressive Socialist Rally in 1983, gained legal recognition in 1988 and was renamed Progressive Democratic Party in 2001. Under the rule of Ben...
  
  

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• Rachid Sfar
  Rachid Sfar
  Rachid Sfar, the former Prime Minister of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, was born on September 11, 1933 at Mahdia, the ancient Fatimite capital of Tunisia...
  
  
• Ras ben Sakka
  Ras ben Sakka
  Ras ben Sakka is the northernmost point of the African continent, located in Tunisia. It is located at 37°21' N., just 950 meters west of Cap Blanc , which is often mentioned as the northern tip of Africa, and reaching more than 30 meters further north than the latter.-References:...
  
   (northernmost point of Africa
  Africa
  Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
  
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• Renaissance Party
  Renaissance Party
  The Ennahda Movement, Renaissance Party or Nahda is a moderate Islamist political party in Tunisia. On 1 March 2011, after the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali collapsed in the wake of the 2011 Tunisian revolution, Tunisia's interim government granted the group permission to form a political...
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Tunisia
  Roman Catholicism in Tunisia
  The Roman Catholic Church in Tunisia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.-Archdiocese:...
  
  

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• SBA Airlines (planned)
• Second Barbary War
  Second Barbary War
  The Second Barbary War , also known as the Algerine or Algerian War, was the second of two wars fought between the United States and the Ottoman Empire's North African regencies of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algeria known collectively as the Barbary states. The war between the Barbary States and the U.S...
  
   (1815)
• Sened language
  Sened language
  Sened is an extinct Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura in Southern Tunisia until the mid-twentieth century...
  
   (extinct)
• Sevenair
• Sfax - Thyna International Airport
• Sfax Governorate
  Sfax Governorate
  The Sfax Governorate is one of the governorates of Tunisia. The governorate has a population of 860,000 and an area of 7,545 km². Its capital is Sfax.The following cities and towns are located in the Sfax Governorate:* Agareb...
  
  
• Sfax
  Sfax
  Sfax is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Taparura and Thaenae, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate , and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has population of 340,000...
  
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• Shakshouka
  Shakshouka
  Shakshouka is a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, chili peppers, onions, often spiced with cumin. It is believed to have Algerian and Tunisian origins.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Shelha language
• Sidi Bou Zid Governorate
• Siliana Governorate
  Siliana Governorate
  Siliana Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It covers an area of 4,631 km² and has a population of 234,000...
  
  
• Social Liberal Party (Tunisia)
  Social Liberal Party (Tunisia)
  The Social Liberal Party , abbreviated to PSL, is an opposition liberal political party in Tunisia. It holds eight seats in the Chamber of Deputies, making it the fifth-largest party in the Tunisian parliament...
  
  
• Socialist Destourian Party
  Socialist Destourian Party
  The Socialist Destourian Party was the ruling political party of Tunisia from 1964 to 1988. Bahi Ladgham was the first Prime Minister from the party and Hédi Baccouche was the last. It was founded on October 22, 1964 and disbanded on February 27, 1988. Habib Bourgiba was the first president of the...
  
  
• Société des transports de Tunis
  Société des transports de Tunis
  The Société des transports de Tunis or Transtu is the parastatal authority to manage public mass transit in the greater Tunis area. It supervises the bus network, the Métro léger de Tunis and the TGM rail link to La Marsa...
  
  
• Sousse Governorate
  Sousse Governorate
  Sousse Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,621 km² and has a population of 544,000...
  
  
• Sport in Tunisia
  Sport in Tunisia
  Football is the most popular sport in Tunisia. The most watched sports in Tunisia are football, handball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, and rugby union.Sport is encouraged in school, and local sports clubs receive financial support from the local governments....
  
  
• Strait of Sicily
  Strait of Sicily
  The Strait of Sicily is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. It is about wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea from the eastern Mediterranean. Its maximum depth is ....
  
  

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• Tataouine Governorate
  Tataouine Governorate
  Tataouine Governorate is the southernmost of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia, the only one to border both Algeria and Libya. It is also the largest Tunisian governorate, covering an area of 38,889 km² with a population of 143,524 , nearly tied for second least populated with Kebili ...
  
  
• TGM
  TGM
  Tunis-Goulette-Marsa or TGM is a 19 km Tunisian railway line linking the capital Tunis with La Marsa via La Goulette.The TGM was the first railway in Tunisia and inaugurated in 1872. Since 1905 it has been known as the TGM...
  
  
• Tozeur - Nefta International Airport
• Tozeur Governorate
  Tozeur Governorate
  Tozeur is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,719 km² and has a population of 98,000 . The capital is Tozeur....
  
  
• Transport in Tunisia
  Transport in Tunisia
  Tunisia has a number of international airports to service its sizable tourist trade. Tunis is the center of the transport system as the largest city having the largest port and a light transit system.- Railways :...
  
  
• Treaty of Bardo
  Treaty of Bardo
  The Treaty of Bardo was signed on May 12, 1881 between representatives of the French Republic and Tunisian bey Muhammed as-Sadiq. A raid of Algeria by the Tunisian Kroumer tribe served as a pretext for French armed forces to invade Tunisia...
  
   (1881)
• Tunis Governorate
  Tunis Governorate
  Tunis Governorate the smallest and most populated of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in northern Tunisia. It covers an area of and has a population of 984,000...
  
  
• Tunis Open
  Tunis Open
  The Tunis Open is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals Challenger Tour. It is held annually at the Tennis Club de Tunis in Tunis, Tunisia, since 2005....
  
  
• Tunis Sports City
  Tunis Sports City
  The Tunis Sports City is an entire sports city currently being constructed in Tunis, Tunisia. The city that will consist of apartment buildings as well as several sports facilities will be built by the Bukhatir Group at a cost of $5 Billion .Construction began in 2008...
  
  
• Tunis-Carthage International Airport
  Tunis-Carthage International Airport
  Tunis–Carthage Airport is the international airport serving Tunis in Tunisia.The airport is named for the historic city of Carthage, located just north of the airport. It is the base of operations for four airlines: Tunisair, Nouvelair Tunisia, Tunisair Express and Tunisavia...
  
  
• Tunis
  Tunis
  Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....
  
   (capital city
  Capital City
  Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
  
  , most populous city)
• Tunisair
  Tunisair
  Société Tunisienne de l'Air, or Tunisair is the flag carrier airline of Tunisia. Formed in 1948, it operates scheduled international services to European, African and Middle Eastern destinations. Its main base is Tunis-Carthage International Airport...
  
  
• Tunisia – United States relations
• Tunisia at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 42 competitors, all men, took part in 22 events in 7 sports.-Fencing:Four fencers represented Tunisia in 1960.Men's foil* Norbert Brami...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  - Silver:* Mohammed Gammoudi — Athletics, Men's 10.000 metres- Bronze:* Habib Galhia — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight-References:**...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  - Gold:* Mohammed Gammoudi — Athletics, Men's 5.000 metres- Bronze:* Mohammed Gammoudi — Athletics, Men's 10.000 metres-References:**...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1972 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 800 metres*Mansour Guettaya* Heat — 1:49.4* Semifinals — 1:49.8 Men's 1500 metres*Mansour Guettaya* Heat — 3:43.9 -Boxing:Men's Flyweight * Ali Gharbi* First Round — Bye...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  During the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, Tunisia, along with many other countries, boycotted due to the participation of New Zealand, who still had sporting links with South Africa....
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.-Athletics:Men's 5,000 metres* Fethi Baccouche...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.-Athletics:Men's 3.000m Steeplechase* Fathi Baccouche-Swimming:Women's 50m Freestyle* Senda Gharbi*# Heat – 27.34...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 5.000 metres*Mahmoud Kalboussi* Heat — 13:55.01 Men's 400m Hurdles*Fadhel Khayati* Heat — DNS -Sailing:Men's Sailboard *Karim Chammari...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Bronze:* Fethi Missaoui — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight-Athletics:Men's 1,500 metres* Ali HakimiMen's Marathon* Tahar Mansouri — 2:18.06...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Men's 400 m*Soufiene Labidi* Round 1 — 45.84* Round 2 — 46.01 Men's 800 m*Mohamed Habib Belhadj* Round 1 — 01:49.14 Men's 3000 m Steeplechase*Lotfi Turki...
  
  
• Tunisia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Tunisia at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  -Athletics:Race walker Hatem Ghoula stayed with the leading group through 10 km, but fell back after that and came in more than 3 minutes behind to post Tunisia's best result of the Games in athletics...
  
  
• Tunisia at the Olympics
  Tunisia at the Olympics
  Tunisia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1960, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Tunisia Campaign
  Tunisia Campaign
  The Tunisia Campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces. The Allies consisted of British Imperial Forces, including Polish and Greek contingents, with American and French corps...
  
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• Tunisia Davis Cup team
  Tunisia Davis Cup team
  The Tunisia Davis Cup team represents Tunisia in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Fédération Tunisienne de Tennis.Tunisia currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group III. They have competed in Group II on three occasions....
  
  
• Tunisia Fed Cup team
  Tunisia Fed Cup team
  The Tunisia Fed Cup team represents Tunisia in Fed Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Fédération Tunisienne de Tennis. They have not competed since 2006.-History:...
  
  
• Tunisia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Tunisia Monitoring Group
  Tunisia Monitoring Group
  The Tunisia Monitoring Group is a coalition of 21 free expression organisations that belong to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange , a global network of non-governmental organisations that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press.The IFEX-TMG...
  
  
• Tunisia national basketball team
  Tunisia national basketball team
  Tunisia national basketball team is the national basketball team of Tunisia. To date, they have 18 appearances at the FIBA Africa Championship, ranking them behind only traditional African powers Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Egypt in total appearances. In 2011 they won their first ever FIBA Africa...
  
  
• Tunisia national football team
  Tunisia national football team
  The Tunisia national football team , nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage , is the national team of Tunisia and is controlled by the Fédération Tunisienne de Football. They have qualified for four FIFA World Cups, the first one in 1978, but have yet to make it out of the first round...
  
  
• Tunisia national rugby union team (sevens)
  Tunisia national rugby union team (sevens)
  The Tunisia national rugby union sevens team compete in the World Sevens Series, and Rugby World Cup Sevens. They have been competing on and off at the Hong Kong Sevens, since 1989, which was their first time there.-Current squad:...
  
  
• Tunisia national rugby union team
  Tunisia national rugby union team
  The Tunisia national rugby union team is the national team of Tunisia, a third tier rugby union nation. They first started competing in 1979 and they competed, unsuccessfully in the African qualification for the 2007 Rugby World Cup....
  
  
• Tunisia women's national basketball team
  Tunisia women's national basketball team
  Tunisia women's national basketball team is the nationally-controlled basketball team representing Tunisia at world basketball competitions for women. In 2007, they were the third highest ranked African team in the world after Senegal and Nigeria....
  
  
• Tunisian Arabic
  Tunisian Arabic
  Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 11 million people. It is usually known by its own speakers as Derja, which means dialect, to distinguish it from Standard Arabic, or as Tunsi, which means Tunisian...
  
  
• Tunisian Communist Party
  Tunisian Communist Party
  Tunisian Communist Party was a political party in Tunisia. PCT was founded in 1934, as the Tunisian Federation of the French Communist Party was converted into an independent organization. The party was banned by the Vichy regime in 1939, but in 1943 the party was able to operate legally again. It...
  
  
• Tunisian Coupe de la Ligue Professionnelle
  Tunisian Coupe de la Ligue Professionnelle
  The Coupe de la Ligue Professionelle was the top knockout tournament for the Tunisian league football clubs. It was created in 1999 with the intention of being played among the two top Tunisian football divisions with some invited teams, like the "Selection 2001" in the 2000/2001 season for...
  
  
• Tunisian dinar
  Tunisian dinar
  The dinar is the currency of Tunisia. It is subdivided into 1000 milim or millimes . The abbreviation DT is often used in Tunisia, although writing "dinar" after the amount is also acceptable ; the abbreviation TD is also mentioned in a few places, but is less frequently used, given the common use...
  
  
• Tunisian duro
  Tunisian duro
  The Tunisian duro is the nickname of the small silver coin that is part of the Tunisian currency. The value of the coin is five millimes or 0.005 of a Tunisian dinar, and is the smallest denomination currently being minted . These coins can be found on the ground since they don't have value....
  
  
• Tunisian General Labour Union
• Tunisian passport
  Tunisian passport
  The Tunisian passport is issued to citizens of Tunisia for international travel.There are three main types of passport:1 - Regular passport, issued to citizens for international travel, valid for 5 years....
  
  
• Tunisian President Cup
  Tunisian President Cup
  The "Tunisian President Cup" mostly known as the Tunisian Cup is the top knockout tournament of the Tunisian football. It was created in 1922.-Winners before independence:*1922/23 : Avant Garde *1923/24 : Racing Club...
  
  
• Tunisian Railways
  Tunisian Railways
  The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens , abbreviated SNCFT, is the national railway of Tunisia and under the direction of the Ministry of Transport. SNCFT was founded on December 27, 1956. Headquartered in Tunis the company employs about 6000 people...
  
  
• Tunisian Rugby Federation
• Tunisian underground music
  Tunisian underground music
  Tunisian underground music refers to music performed by Tunisian artists that play or compose in a style different from the established Tunisian mainstream. Using the term underground to define a performing arts movement or scene in tha Arab world, including Tunisia, takes on a slightly different...
  
  
• Tunisian War of Independence
  Tunisian War of Independence
  The processes of the Tunisian Independence occurred from 1952 to 1956 between France and a independentist movement under Habib Bourguiba. Bourguiba became the first President of the new nation after negotiations with France that led to the independence....
  
   (1952–1956)
• Tunisian Workers' Communist Party
  Tunisian Workers' Communist Party
  The Tunisian Workers' Communist Party , also known by its French acronym PCOT, is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Tunisia. Its general secretary is Hamma Hammami. It was outlawed until the Tunisian Revolution, when in a failed attempt to shore up the state framework it and another banned...
  
  
• Tunisiana
  Tunisiana
  Tunisiana is a private telecommunications company in Tunisia.Set up with capital of 330 million Tunisian dinars, it was founded on 11 May 2002....
  
   (owned by Orascom Telecom Holding
  Orascom Telecom Holding
  Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in the Middle East, Africa, Canada and Asia. It started its operations in Egypt by launching the first egyptian mobile operator in 1998, ....
  
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• Union des Travailleurs Tunisiens
  Union des Travailleurs Tunisiens
  Union des Travailleurs Tunisiens was a central trade union organisation in Tunisia. Founded in 1956, as split from the UGTT. UTT was founded by Habib Achour, who opposed the policies of UGTT General Secretary Ahmed Ben Sallah...
  
  
• Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Tunisie
  Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Tunisie
  Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Tunisie was a central trade union organisation in Tunisia. Founded around 1946, as the Tunisian branch of the French trade union confederation CGT separated itself from the mother organization....
  
  
• Unionist Democratic Union
  Unionist Democratic Union
  The Unionist Democratic Union is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It has a pan-Arabist ideology, and holds nine seats in the Chamber of Deputies, making it the fourth-largest party....
  
  

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• Zaghouan Governorate
  Zaghouan Governorate
  Zaghouan Governorate is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,768 km² and has a population of 161,000 . The capital is Zaghouan....
  
  
• Zembra
  Zembra
  Zembra is a Tunisian island, located several kilometers away from Sidi Daoud. This island is a 432 metre tall rock formation, and as such contains cliffs, some of which are about 400 meters high...
  
  
• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is a Tunisian political figure who was the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and he assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba, who was...
  
  
• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is a Tunisian political figure who was the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and he assumed the Presidency on 7 November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba, who was...
  
  
• Zirid Dynasty
• Zlebia
  Zlebia
  Zlebia or Zlabia is a type of pastry eaten in parts of north-west Africa such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.Typical ingredients include flour, 1/2 spoon yeast soup, 1½ spoons of yoghurt soup and sugar...