Tunis
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- A city on the northern coast of Africa:
- 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248 ↗:
- Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
- A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
- A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
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- 1827, “Tunis ↗” in Richard Brookes, The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary:
- Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
- 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, 248 ↗:
- A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
- French: Tunis
- German: Tunis
- Italian: Tunisi
- Portuguese: Tunes (Portugal), Túnis (Brazil), Tunis
- Russian: Туни́с
- Spanish: Túnez
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