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.

At the time, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri was the semi-autonomous governor of Ifriqiya ( roughly, modern Tunisia ) and a former Umayyad client.

He saw action in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded, and during the Second World War he commanded the Eighth Army from August 1942 in the Western Desert until the final Allied victory in Tunisia.

His primary objective was to move forces successfully onto Tunisia, and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support to François Darlan as High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's fascist leanings.

The 8th Army had advanced across the Western Desert from the east and was ready for the start of the Tunisia Campaign.

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

At this point, Emperor Menelik turned to France, offering a treaty of alliance ; the French response was to abandon the Emperor to secure Italian approval of the Treaty of Bardo which would secure French control of Tunisia.

Both the Greeks and the Phoenicians colonized North African soil, and Punic civilization emerged, although its central city of Carthage was not in present-day Libya but in neighboring Tunisia.

Alexander presided over Montgomery's victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the advance of the Eighth Army to Tripoli, for which Alexander was elevated to a knight grand cross of the Order of the Bath, and, after the Anglo-American forces from Operation Torch and the Eighth Army converged in Tunisia in February 1943, they were brought under the unified command of a newly-formed 18th Army Group headquarters, commanded by Alexander and reporting to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean at the Allied Forces Headquarters.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

Of Alexander, Alan Brooke felt that he needed an able chief of staff " to think for him ", while Montgomery ( Alexander's subordinate in Africa and Italy ) claimed to think of Alexander as " incompetent " and success was only attained in Tunisia only because Montgomery lent Brian Horrocks to organise the coup de grace.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

By coincidence he was visiting his old World War II battlefields in Tunisia where the film was being made.

The film was shot on location in Monastir, Tunisia, which allowed the production to reuse sets from Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ).

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.

Migration was initially to north African countries ( particularly Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt ); later Maltese migrants headed towards the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 ( which was triggered by the Ottoman capture of Venetian-controlled Cyprus in 1570 ) was another major setback for Ottoman naval supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, despite the fact that an equally large Ottoman fleet was built in a short time and Tunisia was recovered from Spain in 1574.

During the mid-3rd century BC, Carthage was a large city located on the coast of modern Tunisia.

The Pythons gave Milligan a cameo role in their 1979 film, Monty Python's Life of Brian, when Milligan happened to be holidaying in Tunisia, near where the film was being shot.

The eastern variant was used in what is now Constantine, the Aures region and Tunisia.

He quickly called on Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Guinea and Mali, which dispatched troops within hours.

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

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.

* Arab Spring, uprisings which began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia

In the early 2000s, there had been speculation that the United Nations might signal a takeover of ICANN, followed by a negative reaction from the US government and worries about a division of the Internet the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia in November 2005 agreed not to get involved in the day-to-day and technical operations of ICANN.

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

Plans for a new network have been under development for some time ( earthworks were begun between Sirte and Ras Ajdir, Tunisia border, in 2001-5 ), and in 2008 and 2009 various contracts were placed and construction work started on a standard gauge railway parallel to the coast from the Tunisian border at Ras Ajdir to Tripoli, and on to Misrata, Sirte, Benghazi and Bayda.

'" Further location shooting took place in Sousse ( Jerusalem outer walls and gateway ), Carthage ( Roman amphitheatre ) and Matmata, Tunisia ( Sermon on the Mount and Crucifixion ).

Christian tradition states that some of his entrails were buried directly on the spot in Tunisia, where a Tomb of Saint-Louis can still be visited today, whereas his heart and other parts of his entrails were sealed in an urn and placed in the Basilica of Monreale, Palermo, where they still remain.

In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".

Among the various free trade agreements that Morocco has ratified with its principal economic partners, are The Euro-Mediterranean free trade area agreement with the European Union with the objective of integrating the European Free Trade Association at the horizons of 2012 ; the Agadir Agreement, signed with Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia, within the framework of the installation of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area ; the US-Morocco Free Trade Agreement with United States which came into force on 1 January 2006, and lately the agreement of free exchange with Turkey.

In 1996, the Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor ( Tunisia, 1993 – 2004 ), visited India in order to compose a report on religious discrimination.

Israeli citizens of Tunisian descent may travel to Tunisia on their Israeli passports.

In the 1950s the President of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, criticized on pragmatic grounds the type of Arab nationalism then promoted by Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, which was a widely-popular ideology at the time in the Arabic-speaking countries.

Although ties were broken under Nasser, and again under Anwar Sadat, on the whole relations between Egypt and Tunisia have remained mutually beneficial.

In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia ) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects.

Following visits by other doctors, including teams from Tunisia, Jordan, and Egypt — and agreement by Israel not to block his return — Arafat was taken to France on a French government jet, and was admitted to the Percy military hospital in Clamart, a suburb of Paris.

* Hara Seghira Synagogue ( Arabic: معبد حارة صغيرة ‎), a synagogue on the island of Djerba, Tunisia

Monte Erice is a cable car ride from the city and aside from the cobbled streets and medieval castle, there are views of Tunisia and Africa from up there on clear days.

He turned down a music professorship in Tunisia then returned to the Conservatoire in 1898 and started his studies with Gabriel Fauré, determined to focus on composing rather than piano playing.