Meaning of Tunis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city on the northern coast of Africa
2. A city on the northern coast of Africa:
3. A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
4. A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
5. The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
6. Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
7. A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.

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Examples

“Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring”

“Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.”

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