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The nine islands of the Kerkenna archipelago, lying 25 km from the coastline of Sfax, are an ideal place to escape from the busy world. Life here seems to have stopped back in ancient Roman times: according to one of the popular versions (survivability of which is supported primarily by the locals themselves), Odysseus was… Read More »

Tunisia has a population which at the 1931 census turned out to be 2,410,692 residents, of which 2,215,399 indigenous and 195,293 Europeans. The indigenous population, as in all of Mediterranean Africa, is made up of Berber elements and Arab elements. The Berbers would represent the descendants of the ancient Libyan people settled in the region… Read More »