Mahdia
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 Tunisia
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| Governorate | Mahdia | ||
| Website | Mahdia | ||
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| population | 51,803 pop (2014) | ||
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 30 ' N , 11 ° 3' E | ||
Mahdia ( Arabic المهدية, DMG al-Mahdiyya ) is a Tunisian city with 51,803 inhabitants, it is located southeast of Monastir , north of Chebba and northeast of El Djem on the coast of the Mediterranean .
Mahdia is a Tunisian provincial center north of Sfax . It has a major fishing port and affiliated fish processing industry. The Mahdia Governorate has an area of 2966 km² with a population of around 380,000.
history
The city was founded under the Caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi as the capital of the Fatimid Empire in 921. Mahdia became the capital of Ifrīqiya and was attacked by ships from Genoa and Pisa in 1087 . Some buildings from the 10th and 11th centuries have survived.
In 1390 the city was the target of a crusade . Mahdia was the base of Muslim corsairs and was unsuccessfully besieged by a Franco-Genoese crusader army.
In the center of the Mahdia peninsula is the fortress Al Borj Al Kebir ( Arabic البرج الكبير al-burdsch al-kabīr , DMG al-burǧ al-kabīr 'the great tower'). It was built in 1595 under the Turkish occupation by Abdallah Muhammad Pasha to defend against the Spaniards.
In 1907 an ancient shipwreck was discovered off the coast .
traffic
The SNCFT operates a local train, the so-called Métro du Sahel . The narrow-gauge railway connects Mahdia via Monastir with Sousse. The train station is south of the old town.
Mahdia can be reached from Monastir Airport and Enfidha-Hammamet Airport .
Partnerships
Mahdia's twin town is the Italian municipality of Mazara Del Vallo in Sicily. There are collaborations with Saint-Nazaire in the French Loire-Atlantique department, with Aveiro (Portugal) and with the French Haute-Savoie department .
Born in Mahdia
- Mouna Chebbah (* 1982), handball player
- Fahed Dermech (born 1966), football player
- Youssef Rzouga (* 1957), poet
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.citypopulation.de/Tunisia-Cities_d.html?cityid=19952 Census 2014
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.sncft.com.tn/fr/banlieue_sahel/presentation.html
- ^ Website Mahdia - Partenariat et jumlage , accessed on November 20, 2017
