Kneiss
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thumb | right | Satellite image of Kneiss Islands Kneiss () is an archipelago of small Islands in the Gulf of Gabes, located a few kilometers offshore of Tunisia, about 50 km south of Sfax.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protected area
- Country
- Tunisia
- Located in
- Sfax Governorate
- Area
- 22027
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Gulf of Gabès
- Image
- Kneiss.jpg
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- Kneiss Islands
- heritage designation
- Ramsar site
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb | right | Satellite image of Kneiss Islands Kneiss () is an archipelago of small Islands in the Gulf of Gabes, located a few kilometers offshore of Tunisia, about 50 km south of Sfax.
Their names come from the plural form of the word knissa ([Christian] "church" in Tunisian Arabic) as the central island still bears archeological remains that correspond to Cenae, the monastery where Fulgentius of Ruspe relocated around the years 503 to 505 AD,.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kneiss” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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