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Tuniscope is a community web portal based in Tunis, focusing on the news and culture of Tunisia. The site is operated by the Tunisian company Eolia. The managing editor is Khaled Aouij; the editors are Amal Jerbi and Abir Fares. According to Google Trends, in April 2011 the site had on average 10,000 daily unique visitors
Medina of Tunis: Tunis: 1979 36bis; ii, iii, v (cultural) Tunis was founded in 698 as one of the first Arab cities in the Maghreb. It reached its peak between the 12th and 16th centuries, under the Almohads and Hafsids, when it was one of the wealthiest cities of the Islamic world. Due to its location, it was a linking point between the Maghreb ...
Tunisia,[a]officially the Republic of Tunisia,[b][20]is the northernmost countryin Africa. It is a part of the Maghrebregion of North Africa, bordered by Algeriato the west and southwest, Libyato the southeast, and the Mediterranean Seato the north and east. Tunisia also shares maritime borders with Italythrough the islands of Sicilyand ...
The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens (English: Tunisian National Railway Company ), abbreviated SNCFT, is the national railway of Tunisia and under the direction of the Ministry of Transport. SNCFT was founded on December 27, 1956 It Replaced the Tunisian Railway Farms Company (Company Fermiere et Chemin de fer Tunisien) (CFT).
Tunisia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film on an irregular basis since 1995. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
Tunisia is on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Nile Delta. It is bordered by Algeria on the west and Libya on the south east. It lies between latitudes 30° and 38°N, and longitudes 7° and 12°E. An abrupt southward turn of the Mediterranean coast in northern Tunisia gives the country two ...
The present day Republic of Tunisia, al-Jumhuriyyah at-Tunisiyyah, is situated in Northern Africa. Geographically situated between Libya to the east, Algeria to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. [1] Tunis is the capital and the largest city (population over 800,000); it is near the ancient site of the city of Carthage .
Official website. 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 about 2,700,000 inhabitants. As of 2020, it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers) and the eleventh-largest in the Arab world .