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Sousse or Soussa (Arabic: سوسة, IPA:) is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located 140 km (87 mi) south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
Sousse Governorate (Arabic: ولاية سوسة Wilāyat Sūsah pronounced; French: Gouvernorat de Sousse) is one of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia. It is beside the eastern coast of Tunisia in the north-east of the country and covers an area of 2,621 km 2 and has a population of 674,971 (2014 census). [ 2 ]
As a coastal heritage site, Medina of Sousse is vulnerable to sea level rise.In 2022, the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report included it in the list of African cultural sites which would be threatened by flooding and coastal erosion by the end of the century, but only if climate change followed RCP 8.5, which is the scenario of high and continually increasing greenhouse gas emissions associated with ...
Sousse: 674,971 2,669 252.89 Centre East 21 Tataouine: 149,453 38,889 3.84 South East 22 Tozeur: ... Grand Tunis; ISO 3166-2:TN; References This page was last ...
As decided in Decree 589 of 21 September 2023, 5 administrative districts have been instituted: [3] [4] District 1: Bizerte, Beja, Jendouba and Kef Governorates.
In October 2013, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a botched attack on a Sousse beach while security forces foiled another planned attack nearby. [10] The post-Tunisian revolution led to the 2014 parliamentary election in which the principal secularist party gained a plurality but was unable to govern alone, and ultimately formed a national unity government.
The Great Mosque of Sousse (Arabic: الجامع الكبير بسوسة) is a historical mosque in the coastal city of Sousse, Tunisia. The construction dates back to 851, during the rule of the Aghlabid dynasty , vassals of the Abbasid Caliphate .
The Ribat of Sousse was founded during the 8th century, [2] or late 8th century, [3] [4] during the tenure of the Abbasid governor Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi (d. 787). [3] There is also evidence that the site of the ribat was formerly occupied in Classical antiquity, reflecting the fact that many ribats in Tunisia were built over the remains of more ancient fortifications.