* 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, in 37 ° 21 ′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cape Verde, 17 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in Somalia, 51 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E, the most easterly projection, is a distance ( also approximately ) of.

Couscous is a staple food throughout Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.

It is also known as: taam ( طعام ) in Algeria and Morocco ; Kuseksi-in Tunisia, Libya and Kuskusi ( كسكسي ) in Egypt.

Today, in Egypt and the Middle East, couscous is known, but in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya couscous is a staple.

In Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, couscous is generally served with vegetables ( carrots, potatoes, turnips, etc.

In Tunisia, it is made mostly spicy with harissa sauce, it is served with almost everything, including lamb, beef, camel, and poultry.

Couscous in Tunisia is served on every occasion ; it is also served sweetened as dessert called masfouf, mostly during Ramadan.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba also called the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ); performing the prayer or Salat is one of the five pillars of Islam.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Many Muslim countries ( such as Egypt and Tunisia ) have an official mufti position ; a distinguished expert in the sharia is appointed to this position by the civil authorities of the country.

During the time of the Ottomans the crescent began to be associated with Islam and this is reflected on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Libya, Mauritania, Pakistan and of Tunisia.

Carthage, located in what is today Tunisia, was the dominant Western Mediterranean power at the beginning of the conflicts.

The earliest document mentioning a Barnabas gospel which is generally agreed to correspond with the one found in the two known manuscripts is reported to be contained in Morisco manuscript BNM MS 9653 in Madrid, written about 1634 by Ibrahim al-Taybili in Tunisia.

* 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.

The border between Tripolitania and Tunisia is subject to countless crossings by legal and illegal migrants.

In addition, it is involved in a maritime boundary dispute with Tunisia.

Thousands of Maltese emigrants in Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States still speak the language, and in 2007 it was reported that Maltese is still spoken by descendants of Maltese immigrants in Tunisia.

Morocco is a participant in Medarabtel and a fiber-optic cable links from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia.

The Arab Maghreb Union is made up of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia.

In Tunisia, the President is elected to five-year terms.

In 2008, in terms of freedom of the press, Tunisia was ranked 143 out of 173.

The Tunisian flag was defined in Article 4 of the 1 June 1959 constitution under these terms: " The flag of the Republic of Tunisia is red, it has, under the conditions defined by law, in the middle, a white circle containing a five-pointed star surrounded by a red crescent.

Such terms include Écoles Polytechniques ( Algeria, Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland, Tunisia ), Escola Politécnica ( Brasil, Spain ), Polytechnicum ( Eastern Europe ).

Tunisia-born historian Paul Sebag has stated that “ these terms were never used in Tunisia, and they do not do not correspond / coincident to the religious and socio-historical context / reality of the Jews in Tunisia / the Arab world .” Nowadays, one distinguishes between a Moslem Arab and a Christian Arab, and I think this caused some to invent, to facilitate matters, the terms: Arab Jew or Jewish Arab = Juif Arab or Arabe juif.

In France there is a sizeable Tunisian diaspora, and the French language is widely used in Tunisia.

Due to Morroco's long history with French colonialism, alongside neighbouring countries including Algeria and Tunisia, sole French-medium education is very widespread, with Arabic being introduced and taught as a second language, as well as the study of a third language later on, usually either English, Spanish, or Italian ( in Libya ).

* Sidi Mansour ( song ), a popular Arabic language song from Tunisia.

It is one of the few remaining places in Tunisia where a Berber language is still spoken.

Sened is an extinct Berber language that was spoken in the nearby towns of Sened and Majoura ( Berber Tmagurt ) in Southern Tunisia until the mid-twentieth century.

In some countries it is a first language among some classes of the population, such as in Tunisia and Morocco where French is a first language among the upper classes ( many people in the upper classes are simultaneous bilinguals Arabic / French ), but only a second language among the general population.

The Berbers of the island of Jerba and the southern part of Tunisia speak Tunisian Arabic as a second language along with a Berber language called Shelha.

The abbreviation DT is often used in Tunisia, although writing " dinar " after the amount is also acceptable ( TND is less colloquial, and tends to be used more in financial circles ); the abbreviation TD is also mentioned in a few places, but is less frequently used, given the common use of the French language in Tunisia, and the French derivation of DT ( i. e., Dinar tunisien ).

French is an administrative language and commonly used, though not on an official basis, in the Maghreb states, Mauritania, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Serge Bramly ( January 31, 1949 Tunis Tunisia ) is a French language writer and essayist.

For instance, in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, French is the most widely-studied language besides the native Arabic, while in Egypt and the Gulf countries ( such as the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Oman ), English is the main supplementary language.

Churchill was saved by Lord Moran, using sulphonamides, since he had no experience with penicillin, when Churchill fell ill in Carthage in Tunisia in 1943.

In August 1574, months before Selim's death, the Ottomans regained control of Tunisia from Spain who had controlled it since 1572.

Tunisia's relations with Libya have been erratic since Tunisia annulled a brief agreement to form a union in 1974.

* Streets were also named after him in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, in Budapest, Hungary ( between 1961 and 1990 ); Jakarta ( between 1945 to 1967 ); Belgrade, Serbia ; Sofia, Bulgaria ( until 1991-2 ) Skopje, Republic of Macedonia ; Bata and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea ; Tehran, Iran ; Algiers, Algeria ( Rue Patrice Lumumba ); Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ( since 1960, formerly Avenida de Bélgica ); Łódź, Warsaw, Poland ; Kiev, Ukraine ; Perm, Russia ; Rabat, Morocco ; Maputo, Mozambique ; Leipzig, Germany ; Lusaka, Zambia (" Lumumba Street "); Kampala, Uganda (" Lumumba Avenue "); Tunis, Tunisia ; Fort-de-France, Martinique ; Montpellier, France ; Accra, Ghana ; Antananarivo, Madagascar ; Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Alexandria, Egypt and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Countries of origin for Arab Americans include Lebanon, Syria, Palestine ( mostly pre-1948 Palestine Christians as well as what since corresponds to the Gaza Strip and West Bank, plus Arab citizens of Israel ), Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait in West Asia and Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania and Morocco ( plus also Sahrawis from the disputed Western Sahara ) in North Africa.

* Tunisia, known as the Régence ( since 3 June 1955 autonomous ), where France had a Resident-general ( posted with the Basha bey of Tunis, who once the French protectorate was terminated on 20 March 1956 restyled his realm al-Mamlaka at-Tunisiyya ' Tunisian Kingdom '), in stead got a High commissioner from 13 September 1955 to 20 March 1956: Roger Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne ( b. 1908 – d. 1985 ); in continued shortly as independent monarchy, but on 25 July 1957 became the Tunisian Republic.

* Grombalia, Tunisia, since 2003

* Ben Arous, Tunisia, since 1994

The traditional definition as being the region including the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, was later superseded, especially since the 1989 formation of the Arab Maghreb Union, by the inclusion of a fifth nation, Mauritania, and of the disputed territory of Western Sahara ( mostly controlled by Morocco ).

The powerful secretary of the Italian Socialist Party, Bettino Craxi, is often taken as a typical example, since he had a permanent residence in an expensive hotel in Rome's centre and also owned a villa in Hammamet, Tunisia.

* Djerba-Midoun, Tunisia, since 2000

Tunisia, since the early 1990s, called for a “ concerted ” international effort against terrorism.

Regarded as a technocrat, Ghannouchi has been a long-standing figure in the Tunisian government ; he was Minister of Finance from 1989 to 1992, Minister of International Cooperation from 1992 to 1999, and Prime Minister of Tunisia from 1999 to 2011, making him the longest serving prime minister since the proclamation of independence, suprassing his predecessor Hamed Karoui.

Around 9, 000 migrants had already reached Lampedusa by boat since mid-January 2011 when protests in Tunisia unleashed a revolution across the Arab world.

The A Pharm. D program has been available in Tunisia since 1975.

Currently Tunisia since 1981, and Turkey since 1997, are the only Muslim countries which have banned the hijab in public schools and universities or government buildings, whilst Syria banned face veils in universities from July 2010.

The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977 held in Tunisia.

Anghelescu had been coaching in Africa since 1999, training teams from Algeria, Tunisia and Burkina Faso.

* Tunisia ( since 2008 )

In 1504, while in Tunisia, Abraham Zacuto wrote a history of the Jewish people, Sefer yuḥasin (), since the Creation of the World until 1500, and several other astronomical / astrological treatises.

Slim Chiboub had to resign for these failures in 2004, even though the team has been Champion of Tunisia uninterruptedly for seven years, since 1997, reaching the magic number of 20 championships in the club history.

The IFEX-TMG found that there had been a significant deterioration of human rights in Tunisia since the last IFEX-TMG mission in 2007.

In September 2005, members of the IFEX-TMG returned to Tunisia to assess whether free expression conditions had improved since the first report.