Sidi Nsir is a

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 ...

n agricultural village in the governorate of Bizerte, the delegation of

Mateur Mateur ( ') is a town in northern Tunisia. It is located at around , close to the Lac Ichkeul National Park. Overview Located in the southwest of the governorate of Bizerte, Mateur is the county seat of a delegation of 61,919 inhabitants (2 ...

, with about 10,000 inhabitants. In

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, it was occupied by the

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, but in February 1943, the Germans resisted and fought an offensive operation known as the

Operation Ochsenkopf (Operation Ox Head) also known as the Battle of Sidi Nsir and the Battle of Hunts Gap was an Axis offensive operation in Tunisia from 1943, during the Tunisia Campaign of the Second World War. The offensive and a subsidiary operation was inte ...

(Operation Ox Head) also known as the Battle of Sidi Nsir, and the Battle of Hunts Gap of the

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in Tunisia from February 26 to March 4, 1943, during the Tunisian campaign of the

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Populated places in Bizerte Governorate Villages in Tunisia {{Tunisia-geo-stub