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  2. American Tunis - Wikipedia

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    In 1799, the Bey of Tunis, Hammuda ibn Ali, sent ten Tunisian Barbarin sheep as a gift to George Washington. [3] [4]: 155 Two reached the Belmont estate of Richard Peters in Pennsylvania. [3] Peters lent his Tunis rams for breeding and the breed gradually spread.

  3. History of early Tunisia - Wikipedia

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    Sheep, goats, and cattle measured wealth. [74] From physical evidence unearthed in Tunisia archaeologists present the Berbers as already "farmers with a strong pastoral element in their economy and fairly elaborate cemeteries", well over a thousand years before the Phoenicians arrived to found Carthage. [75]

  4. Phoenician settlement of North Africa - Wikipedia

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    Map of Phoenician settlements and trade routes. The Phoenician settlement of North Africa or Phoenician expedition to North Africa was the process of Phoenician people migrating and settling in the Maghreb region of North Africa, encompassing present-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, from their homeland of Phoenicia in the Levant region, including present-day Lebanon, Israel, and Syria ...

  5. History of Tunisia - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Tunisia's history many peoples have arrived among the Berbers to settle: most recently the French along with many Italians, before them came the Ottoman Turks with their multi-ethnic rule, yet earlier the Arabs who brought their language and the religion of Islam, and its calendar; [54] before them arrived the Byzantines, and the ...

  6. South Lebanon shepherds face risk and ruin from cross ... - AOL

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    The rolling pastures of southern Lebanon have provided perfect grazing grounds for local shepherds' flocks for centuries. "All of us shepherds take our herds to (the border areas of) Mays al-Jabal ...

  7. Agriculture in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture in Lebanon dates back to Phoenician times, with the first trading activities taking place in the eastern Mediterranean. The wine making tradition, which has a 5,000 years of history in the region, was a known skill for its ancient dwellers.

  8. Tunisian Barbarin - Wikipedia

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    Shepherd with Barbarin sheep near Bou Achar At the oasis of Ksar Ghilane in southern Tunisia. The Tunisian Barbarin is a Tunisian breed of fat-tailed sheep. It is distributed throughout Tunisia, [3]: 46 and on both sides of the Tunisian border with Algeria, on the Algerian side particularly in the area of Oued Souf. [2] [4] Related to the ...

  9. Lebanon, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Lebanon is a town in Russell County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,424 at the 2010 census. The population was 3,424 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Russell County .