Tabarka

Tabarka is a coastal town positioned in north-western Tunisia, close to the border with Algeria. Tabarka's history is a colorful mosaic of Berber, Punic, Hellenistic, Roman, and Islamic, and Turkish subculture. The city is ruled via an offshore rock on which is stays a Genoese fort. Nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba, later president of put up-independence Tunisia, turned into exiled here via the French colonial authorities in 1952. Tourist points of interest include its coral fishing, the Coralis Festival of underwater pictures, and its annual jazz competition.

Although older resources located Thabraca inside the Roman province of Numidia, current ones agree in putting it within the Roman province of Africa, recognised additionally as Africa Proconsularis. It became a Roman colony. It was related through a avenue with Simitthu, which it served as a port for the export of its well-known marble. At Thabraca the rebellious Roman reputable Gildo, the brother of Firmus, dedicated suicide. Under the Vandal king Gaiseric, it had a monastery for guys and a convent for girls.