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Gabès
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Gabès
Gabès is a city and the capital city of the Gabès Governorate in Tunisia. It is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea at Gulf of Gabès. The oldest history of the city goes back to the Numidian and Carthaginian periods in the 1st millennium BC, and it later became important city in the Roman period and then in the Islamic period.
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Country: Tunisia
District: Gabès Governorate
Category: Historic Cities and Regions
Site History: First Millennium BC
Oldest Culture: Numidian
Later Cultures: Mixed
Site Features: Mixed Monuments
UNESCO Tentative List
Part of: Gabès Oasis
Date of Submission: 2008
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Elevation: 2 m
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