Although the Bizerte ( Type PR 48 large patrol craft ) class L ' Audacieux is fitted for SS 12M missiles these are not embarked and its operational status is in some doubt, having not been reported at sea since 1995.

Tunis is the most significant port in Tunisia with other significant ports on the Mediterranean Sea including Bizerte, Gabès, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse and Zarzis.

* System: Above the African average and continuing to be upgraded ; key centers are Sfax, Sousse, Bizerte, and Tunis ; telephone network is completely digitized

Bizerte or Benzert (, Berber: Benzert, ), is the capital city of Bizerte Governorate in Tunisia and the northernmost city in Africa.

Bizerte is located on the north coast of Tunisia, 66 km north of Tunis and 15 km away from Cap Blanc, the northernmost point in Africa.

Bizerte is especially well known for the great and large beaches, like Sidi Salem, La Grotte, Rasenjela, and Al Rimel.

* Bizerte is noted for its beautiful forests, beaches and scenery.

* The port of Bizerte is now being developed into a significant Mediterranean yachting marina that will open in May 2012.

* In Bizerte is born the actor Abdelmajid Lakhal.

* Bizerte, Tunisia-Sister city agreement concluded in 2012

Bizerte was successively conquered by the Arabs in 647 ( who gave the city its current name ), by the troops of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire in 1535, and then by the Turks in 1574.

With the occupation of Tunisia in 1881, France gained control of Bizerte and built a large naval harbour in the city.

* 1961 – Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte ; the French would capture the entire town four days later.

* 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

* 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia in 7 hours 54 minutes.

* September 23 – French aviator Roland Garros crosses the Mediterranean in an airplane flying from Fréjus, France to Bizerte, Tunisia.

By 1913 he had switched to flying the faster Morane-Saulnier monoplanes, and gained fame for making the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea from Fréjus in the south of France to Bizerte in Tunisia.

Weygand acquired a reputation as an opponent of collaboration when he protested, in Vichy, against the Protocols of Paris of 28 May 1941 signed by Admiral Darlan, agreements which granted bases to the Axis in Aleppo ( Syria ), Bizerte ( Tunisia ), and Dakar ( Senegal ) and envisaged an extensive military collaboration with Axis forces in the event of Allied countermeasures.

At the age of 11, Delanoë witnessed the Battle of Bizerte between France and newly independent Tunisia.

As a French protectorate, Bizerte, Tunisia, was a major French base.

* Club Athlétique Bizertin, a football club from Bizerte in Tunisia

* Bizerte and Zarzis in Tunisia

In an incident in the harbor of Bizerte in French Tunisia, Osborne was anchored in 6 fathoms, or 36 feet, of water.

* August 17 – 18 – The German Luftwaffe makes two 80-plane raids by Junkers Ju 88s against Bizerte, Tunisia, where Allied ships are assembling for the invasion of mainland Italy.

** 180 Axis aircraft attack an Allied convoy anchored in the harbor at Bizerte, Tunisia, but a smoke screen prevents them from scoring any hits.

* 23 September – Roland Garros makes the first flight across the Mediterranean Sea, from Saint-Raphaël, Var, France, to Bizerte, Tunisia, in 7 hours 53 minutes.

They met no resistance until they reached Tunisia where they captured Carthage and defeated the Byzantine Empires and Berbers around Bizerte.

High up on the President's priority list was the thorny question of Bizerte.

Ideally, the President would like the French to agree on a `` status quo ante '' on Bizerte, and accept a new timetable for withdrawing their forces from the Mediterranean base.

The President also discussed the Bizerte deadlock with the No. 2 man in the Tunisian Government, Defense Minister Bahi Ladgham, who flew to Washington last week to seek U.S. support.

On 6 May, as the culmination of Operation Vulcan, the British took Tunis, and American forces reached Bizerte.

This campaign covers the Battle of Kasserine Pass, the turning point of the North African campaign, the fall of Bizerte, the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, the bloody Battle of Monte Cassino, followed by the amphibious landings and defense of the beachhead at Anzio, Italy and finally, the battle of Monte Battaglia in September 1944.

After the landings, Anderson's forces rushed east in a bid to capture Tunis and Bizerte before German forces could reach there in large numbers.

In 1924, after the French government officially recognised the Soviet Union ( USSR ), the western military fleet of White Russia that had been kept in the port of Bizerte was returned to the Soviet government.

Three cruisers, eight destroyers and two submarines left Cartagena harbor and reached Bizerte where they where impounded by the French authorities.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

In his stead is a milquetoast version known as `` the corporation ''.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

and it should be far better known than it is.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.