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The Greater Tunis area has an area of 300,000 hectares (1,200 sq mi; 3,000 km 2), 10% of which are urbanized, the rest being shared between bodies of water (20,000 hectares (77 sq mi; 200 km 2) of lakes or lagoons) and agricultural or natural land (250,000 hectares (970 sq mi; 2,500 km 2)).
Grand Tunis or Greater Tunis (Arabic: تونس الكبرى, French: Grand Tunis) is the largest metropolitan area in Tunisia, centered on the country's capital Tunis. It consists of four governorates: Tunis, Ariana, Manouba and Ben Arous. According to the 2004 population census, the area of Grand Tunis is home to 2,247,800 people. [1]
The area includes a container-handling port including large ferries to Salerno, Civitavecchia, Genoa, Palermo and Trapani in Italy and to Marseille in France. Its international airport and railway hub support its status as an established hub in hosting the government departments, stock exchange and major business headquarters of Tunisia .
At the time, Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba noted "France and Tunisia will never again be exclusive partners". [1] From 1987 until the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, France refused to criticize Tunisian President and ally Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, despite the deaths of numerous non-violent protesters. Ben Ali eventually resigned. [2]
The French Resident General in Tunisia, Jean de Hautecloque [de; fr] left Tunis to go to Paris on 25 August 1953, when he was replaced by Pierre Voizard. [74] Voizard had previously been the French Minister to Monaco. [74] A month after his arrival in Tunis on 26 September 1953, Voizard made many changes to ease tensions in Tunisia. [74]
Mutuelleville is known as a more upper-class area of Tunis, [a] and it is home to many of the city's foreign embassies and other diplomatic offices. Other notable locations are the Lycée Pierre Mendès France, [2] the university dormitories of Harroun Errachid and Fattouma Bourguiba, the Chedli Zouiten stadium, [3] and the Sheraton Tunis hotel.
Tunis-Goulette-Marsa (TGM) is a 19 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge light rail line linking the capital Tunis with El 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.
Eventually it became simply Tunis al-fatat [Young Tunisians]. Yet loss of its leadership, due to the French crack-down in 1912, curtailed its effectiveness. Following the World War Tunis al-fatat developed into a loose term which encompassed a wide political-cultural spectrum of Tunisian opinion, from 'communists' to les Vieux Turbans [the Old ...