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Encyclopedia > Sahel, Tunisia


Sahel is an area of Tunisia. It forms the central part of the eastern shore, from the south of Hammamet to Mahdia. Its main town is Sousse, called "the Pearl of the Sahel". Hammamet is a town in Tunisia which due to its beatches is a well-loved location for swimming and was the first tourist destination in Tunisia. ... Mahdia is a coastal town in Tunisia, founded by the Fatimids and named after their self-proclaimed Mahdi. ... Sousse (Arabic سوسة Susa; (140 km south of Tunis), is situated on the east coast of Tunisia and is the most important junction for overland communications in Tunisia. ...

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Celebrities

Politics

Habib Ben Ali Bourguiba (born August 3, 1903 in Monastir – died April 6, 2000) was an Tunisian politican and President of Tunisia from 1957 to 1987. ... Zine El Abidine Ben Ali THE DICTATOR Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (زين العابدين بن علي; born September 3, 1936) has been president of Tunisia since 1987, only the second since its independence from France in 1956. ... Hedi Amara Nouira (1911 - 1993) was a Tunisian political figure. ... Mohamed Ghannouchi (born August 18, 1944) is the current (February 2005) Prime Minister of Tunisia, a position he has held since 17 November 1999. ...

Sciences and letters

  • Yahia Ibn Omar;
  • Hassan Hosni Abdelwahab;
  • Tahar Guigua;
  • Slaiem Ammar;
  • M'hamed Hassine Fantar;
  • Chedly Anouar;
  • Moncef Ghachem;
  • Youssef Rzouga;

Arts

  • Soufia Sadok;
  • Nawal Ghachem;
  • Kerim Chouaïb;
  • Mokhtar Laâjimi;

Sports

  • Mohamed Habib Galhia;
  • Habib Mougou;
  • Abdelmajid Chetali;
  • Othman Jenayah;
  • Lotfi Hsoumi;
  • Zoubaier Baya;
  • oussama hamed;

Main towns

  • Sousse;
  • Monastir;
  • Mahdia;
  • Akouda;
  • Msaken;
  • Hammam Sousse;
  • Sidi Bou Ali;
  • Hergla;
  • Kalaâ Kebira;
  • Kalaâ Seghira;
  • Enfidha;
  • Kondar;
  • Sidi El Hani;
  • Takrouna;
  • Mokhnine;
  • Jemmal;
  • Ksar Helal;
  • Teboulba;
  • Ouardanine;
  • Sahline;
  • Ksibet El Mediouni;
  • Sayyada;
  • Lamta;
  • Bouhjar;
  • Bennane;
  • Beni Hassen;
  • Khniss;
  • Bembla;
  • Zeramdine;
  • Bekalta;
  • Boumerdes;
  • El Jem;
  • Ksour Essaf;
  • Sidi Alouane;
  • Salakta;
  • Chebba;
  • Chorbane;
  • Souassi;
  • Ouled Chamekh;
  • Hebira;
  • Malloulech;
  • Rejich;

Sousse (Arabic سوسة Susa; (140 km south of Tunis), is situated on the east coast of Tunisia and is the most important junction for overland communications in Tunisia. ... Monastir (Arabic al-munastîr, from Latin monasterium) (20 km south of Sousse ; 162 km south of Tunis), is a city on the central shore of Tunisia, in the Sahel area. ... Mahdia is a coastal town in Tunisia, founded by the Fatimids and named after their self-proclaimed Mahdi. ... Ksibet El Mediouni is a litte town in the region of the Sahel in Tunisia. ... Lamta is an extinct city that flourished under Roman rule in the time of the empire. ... Khniss is a small city in the Sahel region of Tunisia, located 5 km to the south of Monastir. ... Boumerdes is a wilaya of northern Algeria, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou; its capital, Boumerdes, is largely a new city built in the 1980s. ... El Djem: the amphitheater of Thysdrus El Djem (Latin Thysdrus) is a town in central Tunisia. ... Salakta is a small Tunisien village situated by the sea. ...

Sports

The football team of Etoile Sportive du Sahel, from Sousse, is famous in Africa for having won many continental cups. Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ...


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Sahel Summary (1057 words)
The Sahel (from Arabic ساحل, sahil, shore, border or coast of the Sahara desert) is the boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known as the Sudan (not to be confused with the country of the same name).
The Sahel is primarily savanna and runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa, changing from semi-arid grasslands to thorn savanna.
Soils in the Sahel are mostly acidic (which results in aluminum toxicity to plants), and are very low in nitrogen and phosphate.
Sahel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (569 words)
The Sahel (from Arabic ساحل, sahil, shore, border or coast of the Sahara desert) is the boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known as the Sudan (not to be confused with the country of the same name).
The Sahel is primarily savanna and runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa, changing from semi-arid grasslands to thorn savanna.
Soils in the Sahel are mostly acidic (which results in aluminum toxicity to plants), and are very low in nitrogen and phosphate.
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