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Bir Mcherga
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Bir Mcherga ( Arabic : بئر مشارڨة ) is a town and commune in the Zaghouan Governorate, Tunisia in the northwest of Tunisia, the site of former Roman North African city and bishopric Giufi, which only remains as Latin Catholic titular see.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Bir Mcherga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Commune and town
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Zaghouan Governorate
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 13665
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- delegation of Bir Mcherga
- Capital of
- delegation of Bir Mcherga
- Official website
- www.communebirmcherga.tn
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- postal code
- 1141
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Modern town
- History
- Titular see
- See also
- References
- Sources and external links
Bir Mcherga ( Arabic : بئر مشارڨة ) is a town and commune in the Zaghouan Governorate, Tunisia in the northwest of Tunisia, the site of former Roman North African city and bishopric Giufi, which only remains as Latin Catholic titular see.
It is located fifty kilometers southwest of Tunis at 36° 31 'north, 9° 58 'east, in the Zaghouan Governorate. As of 2004 it had a population of 7,203.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bir Mcherga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.