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12 unusual facts about Beylik of Tunis


Ala Khallidi

Humat al-Hima was temporarily used as a national anthem between the end of the monarchy on 25 July 1957 and the adoption of Ala Khallidi as the official national anthem.

As-Salam al-Bey

as-Salam al-Bey, also called the Beylical Hymn (سلام الباي), was the national anthem of Tunisia between 1846 and 1957 during the Beylik of Tunis and the Kingdom of Tunisia.

Barbary Wars

The Barbary Wars were two wars fought at different times over the same reasons between the United States of America and the Barbary states (the de jure Ottoman Empire possessions of, but de facto independent, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) of North Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Second Barbary War (1815), also known as the Algerine or Algerian War, was the second of two wars fought between the United States and the Ottoman Empire's North African regencies of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algeria known collectively as the Barbary states.

Beji Caid el Sebsi

Born in Sidi Bou Said in a family from the beylical agricultural makhzen, he is great-grandson of Ismail Caid Essebsi, a mamluk of Tunisian corsairs in Sardinia at the beginning of the 19th century, raised with the beylical family and later an important member of the beylical administration.

El Fahs

Under the French protectorate, the city was known as Pont du Fahs, (trans. Bridge-of-Fahs), named after the remains of a Roman era bridge in the vicinity.

Emilio Faà di Bruno

He was sent to Tunisia, where Admiral Albini had already stationed Italian forces, because trade disputes involving the European powers had sparked local unrest.

Flag of Tunisia

During the era of the French protectorate in Tunisia, French authorities did not change the Tunisian flag.

French conquest of Tunisia

He had in his possessions the Bardo Treaty establishing a protectorate on Tunisia, cabled to him on the eve by the French government.

Husain Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia

On 1 October 1955, Husain Bey Gouta was invested as the heir apparent of the Beylik of Tunis, receiving the title Bey al-Mahalla, meaning Bey of the Camp.

Husainid Dynasty

The Husainid Dynasty is the former ruling dynasty of Tunisia originally of Cretan-Turkish origin.

Taïeb Djellouli

A member of an aristocratic Tunisian family, he served as the last Grand Vizier of the Beylik of Tunis from 1915 until 1922.