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Lac de Gafsa, also called 'Mysterious Lake', appeared unexpectedly in 2014 alongside Om Laryes Road, 25 kilometers from the town of Gafsa in Tunisia. The origin or ...
An oasis is an intensive human-mediated agroforestry system located in an arid or semi-arid climate, usually located in close proximity to an underground aquifer. [citation needed] The Oases of the Maghreb specifically have been described as “islands of lush greenery that flourish amidst the harsh and restrictive conditions of a desert ecosystem.” [1] Date palm oases in the southern part ...
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Gafsa (Arabic: قفصة qafṣah/gafṣah Gafsˤa ⓘ) is the capital of Gafsa Governorate of Tunisia. With a population of 120,739, Gafsa is the ninth-largest Tunisian city and is 335 km from the country's capital, Tunis .
Gafsa Governorate (Tunisian Arabic: ولاية ڨفصة Wilāyat Gafṣa; French: Gouvernorat de Gafsa) is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in central Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 7807 km 2 [1] and has a population of 337,331 (2014 census).
The Roman baths of Gafsa (French: Piscines Romaines) are well-preserved [1] remnants of the Limes Tripolitanus era of North African history, when Gafsa, Tunisia was called Capsa. [2] According to a history of water in the Roman world, "there are two open-air central pools" in part because it was a Trajanic colony. [ 3 ]
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Tunis is the heartland of the Tunisian economy and is the industrial and economic hub of the country, home to a third of Tunisian companies—including almost all the head offices of companies with more than fifty employees, with the exception of the Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa, headquartered in Gafsa—and produces a third of the ...