Talk:Tunis

Medina of Tunis
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Criteria	Cultural: ii, iii, v
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Inscription	1979 (3rd Session)

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Tunis & Carthage

It is not clear why Tunis supplanted Carthage after both were destroyed. Is this not known?Sylvain1972 (talk) 14:41, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

disambig

tunis is also an operating system written in 1983 by rick holt

Is there a Tunis disambiguation page? Manytexts (talk) 08:24, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question

What does this sentence mean: "The historical city of Carthage was located across from the center of modern Tunis" ?

Who knows. Carthage is nearby. Anyway, I deleted that sentence. Sbwoodside 01:28, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

History references

In editing the early history I used these references. Some might be useful for beefing up other parts of the article.

Sbwoodside 01:28, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alot to do Sigh

This page is incomplete and needs alot of work ahead of it. Lauckily ill take it on myself to do some of that work look forward to major changes Kara Umi 14:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It also seems a well known Vandal has followed me to this page. He goes by the name of Vedexent. Tsk tsk hounding Wiki members are we veny. In any case theres little that an be done about this disgruntled user who enjoys abusing the rights of other editors and has a history of doing so be on the look out, thanks :) Kara Umi 21:26, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep - either I'm a horrid vandal, or I have little tolerance for "historical revisionism" to fit some perverse national pride by editors who try and win by shouting the longest and loudest. I'll let the discussions and archives for Talk:Carthage speak for themselves. Anyone who cares (and frankly why would you), can judge for themselves. You might also want to check Wikipedia:Spam before you make accusations as well. You don't check anything before you speak, do you? - Vedexent (talk • contribs • blog) 21:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thats funny because up until know youv been going under the shroud that you were simply there to uphold honorable wiki rules and guidlines (lol), but now you seem to show your true colors and your real motives for harrassing the Carthage article. Sorta leaves your character in question doesent it? And ill let the archives speak for themselves as well. As it seems to me that page is filled with graco-roman apologists and Historical Revinists (or just sock puppets.) with an axe to grind against carthage and you veny have clearly shown us your motives right here now could you go and do the same in the carthage talk :) Kara Umi 10:37, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

stay on topic

why is there a recount of the entire punic wars in this article? mention the parts that effect the history of tunis directly, sure, but if i want to read a synopsis history of the entire series of wars, i'll go read that. most of the 'early history' has nothing to do with tunis, nor is tunis even mentioned past the second sentence! stay on topic. you don't see an entire history of the roman empire recounted in the article on pompei do you? 70.52.197.210 08:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Religion

Is there a famous Judge in Tunis having a mansion on a hill with a surrounding vineyard? Please respond to r3ct@yahoo.com. Is the Judge reverent? 66.248.87.111 05:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Rod Thornton[reply]

Where's the part about Jews not being allowed to live in Tunisia? They were forced to leave when Israel became it's own country, just as many other Arab countries forced the Jews out then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.107.141.219 (talk) 13:29, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

At least they were not massacared similar to what the Zionists did to the indigenous Palestinians in their homeland of Palestine. You forget to mention that "when Israel became it's own country" that there were already people living on the land knowns as Palestinian Arabs who where Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.151.143.2 (talk) 19:15, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

Please refrain from useless comments that are irrelevant to the topic in question, 209.151.143.2.

If there is any document of your claim, 70.107.141.219, please link it appropriately, and it would be considered.

Regards

E3 (talk) 10:39, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed second info box.

I removed this infobox from the article. Typically, articles contain one info box summarizing the article. Alan.ca 23:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seal-resizing

Is there any way to get the seal into the infobox without having it blown up to the point of being useless? As it is right now it's covering part of the table of contents instead, which isn't so great either. -Bbik 01:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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IAF Attack in 1985

Modern history

The Arab League was headquartered in Tunis from 1947 to 1996. The Palestine Liberation Organization also had its headquarters in Tunis, from 1870s to 2003. In 1985, the PLO's headquarters was bombed by the Israeli Air Force, killing more than 6100 people

Is 6100 correct?

I've seen figures in the 60 to 100 range:

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_plo_tunisia.php

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/hangar/2848/operate7.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=FkyMsycbemEC&pg=PA454&lpg=PA454&dq=iaf+attack+on+plo+headquarters&source=web&ots=nmcdlrTHHg&sig=L41AEZ5BOBvLV_pr2VlbyEc3Nak

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1987/SGC.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.197.236 (talk) 01:14, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

REMOVAL: "Growth since independence"

85.179.86.19 (talk · contribs) removed this:

Deletion: "Growth since independence"

Was all of this information wrong?

- 4.240.159.55 (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No it is correct. It was an act of stupid vandalism unfortunately. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Too many pictures

The pictures in this article just seem to swarm the place! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.30.64.138 (talk) 23:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He

I helped improving the article, because (according to Failing States, Noam Chomsky) the Israeli bombing on Tunis killed 57 people, and not 70, as the writer mentioned. Just helping, nice article by the way!

Grtz Na5ty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.127.64.155 (talk) 19:51, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re. picture captions: "Hannibal Barca, still considered to be the greatest stratege [sic] of all time in the universe." made me giggle, but I'm not sure hyperbole like this belongs in an encyclopedia article. 82.16.64.194 (talk) 19:51, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

please please make a Gallery :)) and put back yesterday or 2 days ago's picture —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.226.71.247 (talk) 21:44, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Middle ages Confusion

The events of the first paragraph are repeated in the third paragraph and part of the fourth. (These paragraphs should be merged, with preference given to the section that was first added per the history of the page)
The second paragraph needs to chronologically be after the current fourth paragraph.
In the sub-section title, ages should be capitalized.

--189.102.200.171 (talk) 02:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A new file for the seal

I propose this file to replace the seal in the article. Habib.mhenni (talk) 00:23, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

languages

I can't seem to find anything on what Tunis' official language is - a website says Arabic, then French for business, but it might be more complicated than that.Manytexts (talk) 08:21, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Population

I don't know who checked the pop., but in the NIS-Tunisia site the Governorate's population is 1.077.750 as of July 1st 2012. Tunis municipality's population was 728.453 at the 2004 Census.

Where do the numbers now on the page (2.256.320 for the City and 4.002.500 for the Metro area) come from? Irinor (talk • contribs) 10:52, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Possible copyright problem

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Broken Link

Link 40 does not lead anywhere. Also, the information listed under 40b includes Tunis spending 32,516 million dinars, should the comma be a decimal? 73.5.180.159 (talk) 23:02, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of Tunis

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GA review

The article, has reached a consequent level of information, also I nominated it for GA, anyone who wants, can review it to accept the motion.Tounsimentounes (talk) 19:59, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Tounsimentounes, I'd be willing to review this article, but there are two cleanup banners in it and it will not pass unless those issues are resolved. I also note that there are several sections of the article without any inline citations – this too needs to be addressed. Please make sure you're familiar with Wikipedia:Good article criteria and have checked the article against it. Cobblet (talk) 06:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tunis Governorate vs. Tunis Municipality

Can it be made more clear in the article if there is a difference between Tunis Governor and a Tunis municipality? In the "Georgraphy" section is lists in the subsection "suburbs" some delegations in Tunish governorate and those in others. In the "Politics" section and tne in the "Administrative divisions" is lists 15 municipal districts which make up the municipality. Are these "municipal districts" just another name fro delegations, and if so, are they all within the Tunis governorate? Again, the article is a bit jumbled as it relates to the municipal governance of Tunis, as I imagine it's probably a special case within the country of a city municipality composed of multiple delegations. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:36, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: SSTflyer (talk · contribs) 07:39, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Quick fail – the article has 12 {{cn}} tags and two valid cleanup banners related to citations. sst✈^(discuss) 07:56, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Early history

This section (besides being chronologically out of order) has a lot to say about Messina and the First Punic War, but almost nothing about the early history of Tunis itself. Shouldn't most of that stuff be removed? -165.234.252.11 (talk) 20:42, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and removed the stuff about the First Punic War; what's left still needs a lot of work but that was just out of place. -165.234.252.11 (talk) 19:11, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Beanie Babies

'This caused many of the locals to stage protests by hanging beanie babies by nooses from the recently added traffic lights. The protests finally ended when the crowd ran out of beanie babies.' There's no source for this addition to the Infrastructure section and it looks like total nonsense. The only similar things I can find online seem to be copied verbatim from this article. If there's an actual source for it, I'm happy for it to go back.Mccapra (talk) 22:13, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Noting that the preceding sentence about the number of traffic signals was added immediately beforehand from the same IP (in August 2011), so may also be suspect.—Odysseus 1479 00:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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'confirmed by its name'

Hello @Aṭlas: can you please provide a quote and page number from the source you added[1]? Regards - Swazzo (talk) 07:36, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018

I have added a reliable source and removed the Paul Sebag's one because it's not needed anymore. All it tells us is that Paul Sebag, having rejected a punic origin, agrees with Charles-Joseph Tissot and Jules Toutain about the Berber origin of the settlement (see French quote).

L'origine punique étant rejetée, force est d'admettre une origine berbère. Celle—ci a été affirmée par Ch. Tissot, suivi par J. Toutain.

M.Bitton (talk) 00:26, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

@QuestFour: Regarding this revert: Your claim that your reinterpretation of the sources are as per sources, yet the statement attributed to Fromherz is clearly not. Could you please provide quotations of the relevant portions from Sebag's book to justify your changes? M.Bitton (talk) 22:58, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"تونس" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect تونس. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 7#تونس until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Sun8908 _Talk 13:46, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question (CLIMATE)

When will the climate data be updated, following a 1991-2020 reference? 86.32.50.59 (talk) 19:50, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Tunis & Carthage

disambig

Question

History references

Alot to do *Sigh*

stay on topic

Religion

Removed second info box.

Seal-resizing

Fair use rationale for Image:Tunis armoirie.png

IAF Attack in 1985

REMOVAL: "Growth since independence"

Too many pictures

Middle ages Confusion

A new file for the seal

languages

Population

Possible copyright problem

Broken Link

Timeline of Tunis

External links modified

GA review

Tunis Governorate vs. Tunis Municipality

GA Review

Early history

External links modified

Beanie Babies

External links modified

External links modified

'confirmed by its name'

January 2018

April 2020

"تونس" listed at Redirects for discussion

Question (CLIMATE)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

Alot to do Sigh