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Tunis on 20 March 1956, the day of independence. Tunisian independence was a process that occurred from 1952 to 1956 between France and an independence movement, ...
Tunisia, [a] officially the Republic of Tunisia, [b] [19] is the northernmost country in Africa. ... [74] 20 March is celebrated annually as Tunisian Independence Day ...
This is a list of holidays in Tunisia. [1] January 1: New Year's Day; March 20: Independence Day; April 9: Martyrs' Day; May 1: Labour Day; July 25: Republic Day; August 13: Women's Day; October 15: Evacuation Day; December 17: Revolution Day; Eid al-Fitr; Eid al-Adha; Islamic New Year; Mawlid
A decree dated March 1 sets the number of constituencies at 18 and the number of assembly seats at 98. [7] After independence was recognized on 20 March 1956, it was elected 25 on March, a day declared a public holiday by a decree of 22 March; [8] a by-election is also organized on 26 August to fill ten vacant seats. [9]
The Kingdom of Tunisia (French: Royaume de Tunisie; Arabic: المملكة التونسية el-Mamlka et-Tūnsīya) was a short-lived country established as a monarchy on 20 March 1956 after Tunisian independence and the end of the French protectorate period.
The song by Naccache and El Mahdi won, and the nation formally adopted it on 20 March, Tunisia's Independence Day, that year. "Ḥumāt al-Ḥimā" replaced "ʾAlā Khallidī", following the 1987 Tunisian coup d'état, which brought Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to power on 7 November 1987.
The lyrics come from a poem written in the 1930s by Egyptian poet Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie.Although some say the melody of this march was composed by Mohammed Abdel Wahab, [1] Tunisian musicologist Salah El Mahdi claims the melody was composed by the poet Ahmed Kheireddine [] while the original music for the poem was composed by Zakariyya Ahmad.
The Tunisian national movement was a sociopolitical movement, born at the beginning of the 20th century, ... On the 20th of March 1956, ...