Siliana ( ') is a modern farming town in northern

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 ...

. It is located at around , 130 km south-west of the capital

Tunis Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

. It is the capital of the Siliana Governorate. It is located 10 kilometers away from Jama where the

Battle of Zama The Battle of Zama was fought in 202 BC in what is now Tunisia between a Roman Republic, Roman army commanded by Scipio Africanus and a Ancient Carthage, Carthaginian army commanded by Hannibal. The battle was part of the Second Punic War an ...

occurred. Siliana Dam is located 10 km north of the city of Siliana.

History

During the Second Punic War, the Battle of Zama took place ten kilometers from Siliana. There was a Roman town at that location during the time of the

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, appearing on the

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Peutinger Map. Modern Siliana was founded in 1905. In April 1990 the Silianian people participated in the first Tunisian revolution against the police, the first Tunisian opposition to their government. In November 2012, Siliana witnessed clashes between protesters for unemployment and the local police. Both

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and the

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called on the authorities to end the use of "excessive force".

Neighborhoods

Siliana has 17 neighborhoods.

Climate

Siliana has a

cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

(

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''BSk''). In winter there is more rainfall than in summer. The average annual temperature in Siliana is . About of precipitation falls annually.

Sports

Siliana is the home of USS (Union Siliana Sport), a football team that was founded in 1955.

History

Neighborhoods

Climate

Sports

Education

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