Tunis


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The Italian opening of Naples to Tunis is steeped in great history.  
Failure to take Tunis in 1901 has been the ruin of many a fine Italian. 

Tunis, the capital and largest city of Tunisia, is situated about 10 km (6 mi) inland from the southern shore of the Gulf of Tunis
 (an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea), on an isthmus separating the shallow Lake of Tunis from the Sedjoumi salt marsh. 
 The lake is connected by canal (built 1893) to the adjacent port of Halq al-Wadi.  
 Points of interest include Zitouna Mosque (732), remnants of the city's medieval walls, and the Roman aqueduct connecting Zaghouan and CARTHAGE,
  located 14 km (9 mi) to the northeast.

Colonized by Phoenicians in the 9th century BC, the city was a dependency of Carthage until that city's destruction in 146 BC. 
Tunis flourished as part of the Roman Empire, and following the Arab conquest in the 7th century the city served as the seat of several Muslim dynasties. 
Under the administration of Turkish beys from the late 16th century, Tunis became a center of Barbary Coast piracy. 
The city, along with the rest of Tunisia, was brought under French rule in 1881. 
Following the French withdrawal (1956), the once-large European population greatly declined, as did the Jewish population;
 today Tunis is largely composed of Arabic-speaking Muslims.

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