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Tunisia is the eighteenth most water stressed country in the world. Tunisia's climate is Mediterranean in the north, with mild rainy winters and hot, dry summers. [139] The south of the country is desert. The terrain in the north is mountainous, which, moving south, gives way to a hot, dry central plain.
Accordingly, in France such skills were well known, and a French technical vocabulary entered working use in Tunisia for various Protectorate projects, commercial and industrial. The French language was the favored medium in new schools set up by the French Church, initially established primarily for children of French settlers, such as ...
The position of Minister-Resident General of France in Tunisia stems from the Treaty of Bardo signed on May 12, 1881, article 5 of which stated that "the government of the French Republic will be represented, with His Highness the Bey of Tunis, by a Minister-Resident General who will ensure the execution of this act and who will be the intermediary for the relations of the French government ...
The Greeks arrived later, coming to (what is now) southern France, southern Italy including Sicily, and eastern Libya. Earlier the Phoenicians had settled in (what is now) Sardinia, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Sicily, and Tunisia. In Tunisia the city of Carthage was founded, which would come to rule all the other Phoenician settlements. [53]
France–Tunisia relations are the current and historical relations between France and Tunisia. France invaded Tunisia in 1881 and established the French protectorate of Tunisia, which lasted until Tunisia's independence in 1956. In 1957, France cut off financial aid totaling $33.5 million to Tunisia because of its support for neighboring ...
France invaded Tunisia in 1881, imposing the French Protectorate which lasted until 1956. Unlike Algiers , where the French demolished much of the old city after 1830 to build their own colonial edifices, in Tunis the French built their new planned city outside the existing historic walled city. [ 27 ]
Map of Tunisia Tunis, Capital of Tunisia Sfax City Centre Skyline of Sousse Central Kairouan. This is the list of 350 cities and towns in Tunisia. In the list by governorate, capitals are shown in bold.
Tunis is the transcription of the Arabic name تونس which can be pronounced as "Tūnus", "Tūnas", or "Tūnis". All three variations were mentioned by the 12th-century Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in his Mu'jam al-Bûldan (Dictionary of Countries). Different explanations exist for the origin of the name Tunis.