Meknessi
| Meknessi المكناسي |
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| Governorate | Sidi Bouzid | ||
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| population | 23,789 pop (2014) | ||
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 36 ' N , 9 ° 36' E | ||
Meknessi (also Maknassy or Meknassy ; Arabic المكناسي, DMG al-Miknāsī ) is a city in Tunisia . It is located in the Sidi Bouzid governorate in the center of the country and has almost 15,000 inhabitants.
The city, lying on a plain, is located about 120 kilometers west of the coastal town of Sfax and a few kilometers north of the Bou Hedma National Park and in a west-east direction running mountain ranges, foothills of the Sahara Atlas . The city is considered to be one of Tunisia's inland development centers; There is a lot of agricultural irrigation in their vicinity . A large number of Arabian horse breeders can be found in the city with annual meetings.
During the revolution in Tunisia in 2010/2011 , violent clashes between demonstrators and police broke out in Meknessi, resulting in deaths.
Web links
- Reiner Wandler: The anger of 23 years. In: Die Tageszeitung , January 10, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contributions to the reproductive biology of birds with consideration of the ooligy. Vol. 1-3, 1925, p. 59.
- ↑ Hermann Achenbach: Agro-geographical development problems of Tunisia and Eastern Algeria: Exemplary structural analysis of selected reform and traditional areas between the Mediterranean coast and the northern Sahara. Self-published by the Geographische Gesellschaft, 1971, pp. 114–118.
- ↑ Denis Bogros : Le Cheval arabe. Live II: Les chevaux du désert et les mœurs des occidentaux. Annex III. Vichy, September 1991; Top festivals in Tunisia. ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 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. In: Tunesien.info (German).
