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El Haouaria is a coastal town and commune in the
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Nabeul Governorate
Nabeul Governorate ( ' Tunisian pronunciation: ; ) is one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia. It is situated in north-eastern Tunisia. It covers an area of 2,788 km2 and has a population of 863,172 (2024 census). The capital is Nabeul.
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, situated in north-eastern 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 ...
. As of 2004 it had a population of 9,273.Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique)/ref>
History
El Haouaria, referred to by the Greeks as Hermaea, is first mentioned in the ancient GreekPeriplus of Pseudo-Skylax
The ''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'' is an ancient Greek periplus (περίπλους ''períplous'', 'circumnavigation') describing the sea route around the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It probably dates from the mid-4th century BC, specifically t ...
(4th–3rd century BC). In this text, it is described as a ''polis
Polis (: poleis) means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The ancient word ''polis'' had socio-political connotations not possessed by modern usage. For example, Modern Greek πόλη (polē) is located within a (''khôra''), "country", which is a πατ ...
'' (city) and recognized as one of the oldest maritime ports on the Cap Bon Peninsula.
Caves of El Haouaria are located three kilometers west of the city, near the Ghar El Kebir site. These artificial quarries were probably dug by prisoners or slaves under the authority of the Carthaginians
The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people, Semitic people who Phoenician settlement of North Africa, migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Iron ...
and later the Romans
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of Roman civilization
*Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...
. The stone blocks extracted from them were transported by sea to Carthage, across the Gulf of Tunis
The Gulf of Tunis () is a large Mediterranean bay in north-eastern Tunisia, extending for from Cape Farina in the west to Cape Bon in the east. Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, lies at the south-western edge of the Gulf, as have a series of s ...
. They were used to build the Punic city, as well as the construction of the forts in the Medina of Tunis.Mayors
A list of Mayors of El Haouaria since the creation of the municipality: * Hamed Ben Salem * Mahmoud Miladi * Alaya Ben Taleb * Kilani Lassoued * Maouia Bel Haj * Hamadi Bouaicha * Faouzi Ben Jdira * Ahmed Boussak * Bechir Hmissi * Farid Ben FadhelSee also
*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
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References
Communes of Tunisia Populated places in Nabeul Governorate Tunisia geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Tunisia-geo-stub