Sidi El Hani (or Sidi Al-Hani) (سيدي الهاني) is a town and commune in the

Sousse Governorate Sousse Governorate ( ' ) is one of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia. It is beside the eastern coast of Tunisia in the north-east of the country and covers an area of 2,621 km2 and has a population of 674,971 (2014 census). ...

, Tunisia located at 35.67 n, 10.30 e. As of 2004 it had a population of 3,058. It gives its name to the largest lake of the governorate, a natural salt lake or salt pan ('' sabkha'') in dry seasons, the

Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani The Sebkha Sidi El Hani () is a salt lake in the Sousse Governorate of Tunisia, southwest of the city of Sousse and southeast of the city of Kairouan. It covers an area of 36,000 hectares and consists of three depressions: the Sidi El Hani sebk ...

which is shared with between one and two other areas depending on precipitation and its maximum extent forms the official boundary with part of a third, Monastir Governorate. The town is 30 km south-west of the coast, its straightest connection being by Tunisian Railways, with a secondary connection by road, the P12 road which is a principal road to Kairouan from the A1 a few kilometres to the east. it is 19 km from Kairouan and 26 km from Raqqada.

History

During the Roman Empire Sidi El Hani was a Roman town of the Province of Africa Proconsularae. The remains a large

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are still seen. The town was known as ''Quartz August'' (Street of Augustus) or vicus Augustii (the Village of Augustus) and was active from 30 BC to AD 640. In Late Antiquity Sidi El Hani was the

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of a

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Bishopric, and remains a titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church.entry
at ''catholic-hierarchy.org''

References

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