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The American Tunis or Tunis is an endangered American breed of fat-tailed sheep. It derives from Tunisian Barbarin sheep imported to the United States from Tunisia in 1799. [2] It is raised primarily for meat. [2]
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 ...
Bakewell established the principles of selective breeding—especially line breeding—in his work with sheep, horses and cattle; his work later influenced Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin. [ 8 ] : 56 His most important contribution to sheep was the development of the Leicester Longwool, a quick-maturing breed of blocky conformation that formed ...
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 ...
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 .
The sheep wars, [1] [2] or the sheep and cattle wars, [3] [4] were a series of armed conflicts in the Western United States fought between sheepmen and cattlemen over grazing rights. Sheep wars occurred in many western states, though they were most common in Texas , Arizona , and the border region of Wyoming and Colorado .
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The National Foundation, Beit El-Hikma, Tunis-Carthage. Tunisian culture is a product of more than three thousand years of history and an important multi-ethnic influx. Ancient Tunisia was a major civilization crossing through history; different cultures, civilizations and multiple successive dynasties contributed to the culture of the country over centuries with varying degrees of influence.