El Hamma (Gabes)
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| Post Code | 6020 | ||
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| population | 34,835 pop ( 2004 ) | ||
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| Coordinates | 33 ° 53 ' N , 9 ° 48' E | ||
El Hamma ( Arabic الحامة, DMG al-Ḥāma ), also El Hamma de l'Arad , is an oasis city in southern Tunisia . It is located in the Gabès Governorate and has about 35,000 inhabitants. The place name comes from Hamma for bath and results from natural artesian springs in their area.
Location and population
The urban village was originally formed from five individual village and garden-like individual settlements. These are Bechima (created in 1870), Bou Attouche , Debdaba , El Ksar and Sembat .
The city lies at the foot of the eastern foothills of the Djebel Tebaga in the Arad plain , which forms the southern limit for the geological subsidence area Chott el Fedjadj .
Their modern settlement structure is on both sides of the main road leading through the village. The green zones of the actual oasis extend into the northern parts of the city.
The majority of the residents are urban. Originally, nomads of the Beni Zid tribe settled here . Many of the city's residents feel they belong to this group. In the vicinity of the city there are extensive complexes with date palms , which provide a source of income for part of the population.
Water sources
The water sources on which this group of oases is based form the largest groundwater reservoir between the Chott el Fedjadj and the city of Gabès . Their occurrence was already known in Roman antiquity and that is why the place was called Aquae Tacapitanae .
The water emerges by itself in the form of artesian thermal springs and has a temperature of 45 ° C. They are low in sulfur.
traffic
The city is located on the Tunisian regional road P16, which leads from the port city of Gabès in the western interior to Tamerza on the Algerian border.
sons and daughters of the town
- Mohamed Daghbaji (1885–1924), politician of the national movement
- Mohamed Ali El Hammi (1890–1928), founder of Tunisian syndicalism
- Raschid al-Ghannuschi (* 1941), politician with an Islamist orientation
- Sami A. (* 1976), Salafist preacher
literature
- Horst Mensching: Tunisia (Scientific Country Customers, Volume 1.), Darmstadt (Scientific Book Society) 1974
Web links
- Entry at the Office du Thermalisme, Ministère de la Sainté Publique (French, English, Arabic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Institut National de la Statistique - Tunisie ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( french )
