Somâa
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Somâa
الصمعة | |
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Commune and town | |
 Somâatown Hall. | |
| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Nabeul Governorate |
| Government | |
| •Mayor | Naoufel Ben Dhia(Ennahda) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 7,017 |
| Time zone | UTC+1(CET) |
Somâais a town and commune in theNabeul Governorate,Tunisia.As of 2004 it had a population of 6,287.[1]
Description
[edit]Somâa (Arabic: الصمعة) is aTunisiantown located in the region ofCape Bon,about ten kilometers north ofNabeul.
Attached administratively to the governorate of Nabeul, it constitutes a municipality with 7,017 inhabitants in 20142. It was created by a decree of April 2, 1966.[2]
History
[edit]The city was built on a hilly site at the foot of the last foothills of the mountain range of the Tunisian ridge. It would be on the site of an ancient mausoleum dating back to the second century BC. J. - C., as Fernand Benoit thinks in 19314. Besides, the name of the city comes from the classical Arabic çawma'a designating the top of a hill or a high place inhabited by a hermit4.
Some ruins date fromCarthaginianandRoman times,as shown by acoindiscovered on the spot and dated from the reign ofTrajan.In late antiquity aChristianbishopricwas founded in the town, then calledPraesidium.
Sidi Ali al-Çum'î, mystic of the13th century,is the patron saint of the city. According to oral tradition, he is the ancestor of the majority of inhabitants.
During theOttomanregency, Somâa produced some products such as mats, baskets, baskets and brooms sold throughout the country.[3]Around 1860, the city has only 442 inhabitants.[4]
The road connecting Somâa andBéni Khiarwas enlarged in 1925 and two Franco-Arab schools built in 1927 and 1952.
On December 16, 1942, a Neo-Destour cell was founded in Somâa; militants were arrested by theFrench armyon January 28, 1952, and deported to Zaraoura in the south of the country.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^(in French)Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique)Archived2015-09-24 at theWayback Machine
- ^Décret du 2 avril 1966 portant création d'une commune à Somâa, Journal officiel de la République tunisienne, n°16, 1er avril 1966, p. 576.
- ^Lucette Valensi,Fellahs tunisiens, éd. Walter de Gruyter, (Berlin, 1977), p. 216.
- ^Jean Ganiage, « La population de la Tunisie vers 1860. Essai d'évaluation d'après les registres fiscaux », Population, vol. 21, n°5, (1966), p. 883.
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