Bab Sidi Abdallah Cherif ( ar, باب سيدي عبد الله الشريف) is one of the gates of the
medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
of
Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois
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, the capital of
Tunisia
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. It was situated at the south-western extremity of the
kasbah
A kasbah (, also ; ar, قَـصَـبَـة, qaṣaba, lit=fortress, , Maghrebi Arabic: ), also spelled qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city. It is also equivalent to the term ''alca ...
, but has been destroyed.
It is also called Bab El Ghedar ( ar, باب الغدر) which means "Gate of the treason".
Etymology
This gate takes its name from a
saint, ''Sidi Abdallah Cherif'', whose tomb is nearby, outside the medina of Tunis's rampart.
References
Sidi Abdallah Cherif
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