Medenine
Sign in to saveMedenine ( ) is the major town in south-eastern Tunisia, south of the port of Gabès and the Island of Djerba, on the main route to Libya. It is the capital of Medenine Governorate.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in TN, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Communes of Tunisia, Long stubs with short prose and Populated places in Medenine Governorate.
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Medenine
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hôtel de ville de Médenine, 2019.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Town Hall of Medenine
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- Tunisia
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- bottom
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- Location in Tunisia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Medenine Governorate
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Delegation(s)
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Medenine North, Medenine South
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Moncef Ben Yemna (Ennahda)
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 79406
- Settlement.population_metro
- 522294
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Ethnicities
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 109409
- Image
- Medenine Ghorfas.JPG
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- Medenine
- postal code
- 4100
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Climate
- In popular culture
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- References
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Medenine ( ) is the major town in south-eastern Tunisia, south of the port of Gabès and the Island of Djerba, on the main route to Libya. It is the capital of Medenine Governorate.
== Overview == thumb|left|190px|Panorama of Medenine thumb|right|190px| thumb|left|190px| thumb|right|190px|Market in Medenine In pre-colonial times, Medenine was already the most important trading centre in the south, attracting merchants from all over North Africa and even from Bornu, to the south of the Sahara. The Ksar housed the central granaries of the various nomadic Berber tribes of the region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Medenine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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