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  • Gabès

  • 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.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Gabès Oasis.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Gabès
    by Ala Hachaichi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Gabès

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2008

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Tunisia

    Gabès

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    First Millennium BC

    Numidian

    Mixed

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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