Sayada () is a city in the

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region of

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. It is located about fifteen kilometers south of Monastir. It is part of the administrative governorate of Monastir, and is the county seat of the Sayada-Lamta-Bou Hajar

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which has a population of 22,944."Résultats du Recensement 2004: Gouvernorat: Monastir" ''Institute National de la Statistique - Tunisie''

Description

The town is based around a small hill that overlooks the and the two small islands that make up the Kuriat archipelago. The built up area extends for over a mile in every direction from the hill but especially towards the flat tidal area. Sayada is joined in a "delegation" with the smaller communities of Bouhjar and Lemta (which historically was known as

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and is still the site of international archaeology). Sayada itself is within the Monastir Governorate which administers the larger area from the city Monastir which is 12 miles inland.

Born here

Rachid Ammar Rachid Ammar, or Rchid Ammar () (born 1947 or 1948) was the chief of staff of the Tunisian Armed Forces. He is perhaps best known for his refusal to fire on protestors during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. He has been described as "the first pos ...

, Chief of Staff of the

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Tahar Cheriaa Tahar Cheriaa (; January 5, 1927 – November 4, 2010) was a Tunisian film critic and the founder of the Carthage Film Festival in 1966, the first Panafrican and Panarab film festival. Biography Cheriaa was born in Sayada in Tunisia. He was th ...

, film critic and creator of the

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Naceur Ktari Naceur Ktari (born 1943) is a filmmaker from Tunisia. Early life and education Ktari was born in Sayada in Tunisia on 17 May 1943. Ktari studied film in Paris and later in Rome. He worked as an assistant on Raiders of the Lost Ark when Steven Spi ...

, award-winning film director

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