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The Tunis Bay
Compared with most mega-cities elsewhere in the world, Tunis comes across as...
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The Tunis Bay
The medina is the historical and cultural heart of modern Tunis and a great...
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The Tunis Bay
Also in the medina, the Tourbet el-Bey is a huge mausoleum that houses the...
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The Tunis Bay
The streets of the ville nouvelle are lined with old French buildings replete...
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The Tunis Bay
One not-to-be-missed sight outside of central Tunis is the Bardo...
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The Tunis Bay
Tunisia may be the smallest country in North Africa, but its strategic...
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The Tunis Bay
It's believed that in those days what is now arid desert was covered in...
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Tunis French District
The Phoenicians first set up shop in Tunisia at Utica in 1100 BC,...
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Tunis French District
But the port that looms largest in history books is Carthage, arch enemy of...
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Tunis French District
The Tunisian territory became Roman property after the war. The...
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The Medina
By the beginning of the 5th century, with Rome's power in terminal...
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The Medina
Islam burst onto the scene in the 7th century, when the Arab armies...
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The Medina
The Berbers adopted Islamic religious teachings readily enough, but...
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The Medina
Conflicts arose again when North Africa was caught in the middle of...
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The Medina
The French granted independence to Tunisia in 1956, and Hebib...
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The Medina
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The Medina
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The Medina
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The Medina
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The Medina
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