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Stone age tools dating from the Middle Stone Age (around 200,000 years ago) found near Kelibia are the earliest evidence of human activity in the region. [9] Finds have been made of stone blades, tools, and small figurines of the Capsian culture (named after Gafsa in Tunisia), which lasted from around 10,000 to 6,000 BC (the Mesolithic period).
Tunisia, [a] officially the Republic of Tunisia, [b] [20] is the northernmost country in Africa. ... The city of Carthage was founded in the 9th century BC by ...
An independence movement lasting many decades eventually prevailed, leading to the end of the French protectorate (commenced in 1881). In 1954 the Tunisian struggle and consequent civil disturbances resulted in the start of negotiations for autonomy between France and the Neo Destour political party (essentially under Habib Bourguiba) supported by the Tunisian labor unions and by the Arab League.
Tunisia: 25 July 2022: ... Autonomous Principality of Romania founded; becomes kingdom in 1866 and achieved independence 1878 Ottoman Empire: 10 February 1947:
Remains of Homo erectus during the Middle Pleistocene period, has been found in North Africa. The Berbers , who generally antedate by many millennia the Phoenicians and the establishment of Carthage , are understood to have arisen out of social events shaped by the confluence of several earlier peoples, i.e., the Capsian culture , events which ...
The history of Tunisia under French rule began in 1881 with the establishment of the French protectorate and ended in ... founded circa 670. During the 9th-11th ...
Gadès and Utica (on the territory of present-day Tunisia) were founded by the Phoenicians between the 12th and 10th centuries BC. Carthage was founded on a peninsula surrounded by lagoons northeast of present-day Tunis. At the height of its glory, the African empire of the Carthaginians had a population of 3-4 million inhabitants. [157]
The first educational institution of modern Tunisia was the Sadiki College, founded in 1875 by the Grand Vizier Pasha Kheireddine, followed by the Khaldounia School in 1896. [28] In 1956, after independence, began a policy of education reform that was characterized by the unity, the nationalization and the Arabization of the education system. [29]