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Jérissa
Jérissa, also spelled Djérissa, is a town and commune in the Kef Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2004 it had a population of 11,298. It is located by road east of the Algerian town of Ouenza. History The area has been inhabited since antiquity. The name ''Djerissa'' is of Berbers, Amazigh origin and means "hill". Many archaeological sites, including Amazigh, Punic people, Punic, and Roman Empire, Roman can be found in the area. During the Arab rule, the locality was called ''Majjenna ('') and ''Henchir el-Hadid'' (; meaning: ancient enclosure of iron). Arab geographer Ya'qubi, al-Ya'qubi, in the 9th century, mentioned it as ''Majjenna'', the name it had at the time, and described the mines in the town. Yaqut al-Hamawi, described a nearby citadel: Citadel of Busr, named after military commander Busr ibn Abi Artat, who conquered the region in the 7th century, under the command of Caliphate Mu'awiya I. The name Citadel of Busr was also used for the whole region of Djerissa. The expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourad Melki
Mourad Melki () (born 9 May 1975) is a Tunisian footballer. He was a member of the Tunisian national team during the World Cups in 1998 and 2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation .... International goals External links * 1975 births Living people Tunisian men's footballers 1998 FIFA World Cup players 2002 FIFA World Cup players Tunisia men's international footballers 2002 African Cup of Nations players Olympique Béja players Espérance Sportive de Tunis players AS Marsa players CS M'saken players People from Kef Governorate Men's association football midfielders {{Tunisia-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governorates Of Tunisia ...
Tunisia is divided into 24 governorates (''wilayat'', sing. ''wilayah''). This term in Arabic can also be translated as province. The governorates are divided into 264 delegations (''mutamadiyat''), and further subdivided into municipalities (''baladiyat''), and sectors (''imadats''). Tunisia is divided into 6 regions. See also * Subdivisions of Tunisia * Delegations of Tunisia * Grand Tunis * ISO 3166-2:TN References {{DEFAULTSORT:Governorates Of Tunisia Subdivisions of Tunisia Tunisia, Governorates Tunisia 1 Governorates, Tunisia Tunisia geography-related lists Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Du Djebel-Djérissa
Groupe Lactalis S.A. (doing business as Lactalis) is a French multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France. The company's former name was Besnier S.A. Lactalis is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the second largest food products group in France, behind Danone. It owns brands such as Parmalat, Président, Kraft Natural Cheese, Siggi's Dairy, Skånemejerier, Rachel's Organic, and Stonyfield Farm. History André Besnier started a small cheesemaking company in 1933 and launched its '' Président'' brand of Camembert in 1968. In 1990, it acquired Group Bridel (2,300 employees, 10 factories, fourth-largest French dairy group) with a presence in 60 countries. In 1992, it acquired United States cheese company Sorrento. In 1999, ''la société Besnier'' became ''le groupe Lactalis'' owned by Belgian holding company BSA International SA. In 2006, they bought Italian group Galbani, and in 2008, bought Swis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Tunisia
This is the list of 350 cities and towns in Tunisia. In the List of cities in Tunisia#List of cities by Governorate, list by governorate, capitals are shown in bold. List of most-populated cities List of municipalities by governorate See also * *List of cities by country *Governorates of Tunisia *List of metropolitan areas in Africa *List of largest cities in the Arab world References External links {{Africa in topic, List of cities in Lists of cities by country, Tunisia, List of cities in Lists of cities in Africa, Tunisia Tunisia geography-related lists, Cities Cities in Tunisia, Communes of Tunisia, Subdivisions of Tunisia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncef Marzouki
Mohamed Moncef Marzouki (; ''Muhammad al-Munṣif al-Marzūqī'', born 7 July 1945) is a Tunisian politician who served as the third president of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014. Through his career he has been a human rights activist, physician and politician. On 12 December 2011, he was elected president of Tunisia by the Constituent Assembly. Early life Born in Grombalia, Tunisia, Marzouki was the son of a Qadi. His father, being a supporter of Salah Ben Youssef (Bourguiba's opponent), emigrated to Morocco in the late 1950s because of political pressures. Marzouki finished his secondary education in Tangier, where he obtained the Baccalauréat in 1961. He then went to study medicine at the University of Strasbourg in France. Returning to Tunisia in 1979, he founded the Center for Community Medicine in Sousse and the African Network for Prevention of Child Abuse, also joining Tunisian League for Human Rights. In his youth, he had travelled to India to study Mahatma Gandhi's non-vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayoub Massoudi
Ayoub is the Arabic name of the biblical figure Job. Ayoub or Ayyoub or Ayub or Ayoob and other variants is also a given name and a surname. Eyüp is the Turkish variant of the same name. Ejub is the Bosnian variant of the same name. Given name Ayoub *Ayoub Abdellaoui (born 1993), Algerian footballer *Ayoub Adouich (born 1996), Moroccan para taekwondo practitioner *Ayoub Azzi (born 1989), Algerian footballer * Ayoub Baninosrat (born 1968), Iranian wrestler * Ayoub Barzani, Kurdish writer and critic *Ayoub Boukhari (born 1997), Dutch footballer of Moroccan descent *Ayoub El Kaabi (born 1993), Moroccan footballer * Ayoub Latrèche (born 1989), Algerian footballer *Ayoub Odisho (born 1960), Iraqi Assyrian footballer *Ayoub Ouadrassi (born 1991), Moroccan footballer *Ayoub Al-Mas (born 1978), Emirati swimmer *Ayoub Mousavi (born 1995), Iranian weightlifter * Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh (born 1978), Yemeni citizen held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detainment camps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taoufik Ben Brik
Taoufik Ben Brik (born 1960 in Jerissa) is a Tunisian journalist. Career Brik is a prominent critic of the former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and an outspoken critic of censorship in the Middle East. He has published numerous articles, and collections of articles as books, abroad that describe the difficult economic conditions in the country, political corruption, and lack of free speech. In 2000, he was accused of publishing false information and other spurious charges, and went on a hunger strike in protest. He has been periodically detained in Tunisia and prevented from travelling, and his family has also been harassed as a way to intimidate him and prevent him from speaking out against the regime. He was incarcerated on October 29, 2009 on trumped-up charges of assaulting a citizen after a traffic incident. The Court of Appeal upheld a sentence of nine years on 3 January 2010 in a trial that "confirmed the complete absence of independence of the Tunisian l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabyle People
The Kabyle people (, or ''Leqbayel'' or ''Iqbayliyen'', , ) are a Berbers, Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, east of Algiers. They represent the largest Berber population of Algeria and the second largest in North Africa. Many of the Kabyles have emigrated from Algeria, influenced by factors such as the Algerian Civil War, cultural repression by the central Algerian government, and overall industrial decline. Their diaspora has resulted in Kabyle people living in numerous countries. Large populations of Kabyle people settled in France and, to a lesser extent, Canada (mainly Québec) and United States. The Kabyle people speak Kabyle language, Kabyle, a Berber language. Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the Languages of Algeria, official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria. Etymology The word 'Kabyle' (Kabyle: Iqbayliyen) is an exonym, and a distortion of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsicans
The Corsicans ( Corsican, Italian: ''Corsi''; French: ''Corses'') are a Romance-speaking ethnic group, native to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a territorial collectivity of France. Origin and history The island was populated since the Mesolithic (''Dame de Bonifacio'') and the Neolithic by people who came from the Italian peninsula, especially the modern regions of Tuscany and Liguria. An important megalithic tradition developed locally since the 4th millennium BC. Reached, like Sardinia, by Polada culture influences in the Early Bronze Age, in the 2nd millennium BC Corsica, the southern part in particular, saw the rise of the Torrean civilization, strongly linked to the Nuragic civilization. The modern Corsicans are named after an ancient people known by the Romans as '' Corsi''. The ''Corsi'', who gave their name to the island, actually originated from the Northeastern part of Nuragic Sardinia ( Gallura). According to Ptolemy, the Corsi were made up of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Koeltz
Louis Marie Koeltz (Besançon, 30 September 1884 – Paris, 27 May 1970) was a French Lieutenant General in World War II. Biography Of Alsatian origin, Koeltz was born in Besançon, as his father, a brigadier in the gendarmerie, chose to leave Alsace-Lorraine which had become controlled by the Germans in 1871. He decided to obtain the French nationality in 1903, at the age of 18. He graduated from the École militaire in Paris in 1913. He then served as a general staff officer in World War I. From 1926 to 1935, Koeltz was employed in the intelligence service of the French General Staff and was appointed Brigadier General in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II, he was Vice Chief of Operations at the Grand Quartier Général. Following the French capitulation, he became Director of the Services de l'Armistice on 25 June 1940. After joining the Vichy Army, he was promoted to Lieutenant General in May 1941 and in September, Koeltz was appointed commander of the 19th Military R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
