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unusual facts about Utica, Tunisia


Massa Candida

The Massa Candida were 300 early Christian martyrs from Utica who chose death rather than offering incense to Roman Gods, in approximately 253-60 AD.


2013 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup

The 2013 African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup (29th edition), was an international handball tournament held in Hammamet, Tunisia from April 18 to 27 2013.

Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qalaṣādī

al-Qalasādī eventually left his homeland and took refuge with his family in Béja, Tunisia, where he died in 1486.

African Romance

The 12th century Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi who, describing Gafsa in southern Tunisia, noted that "its inhabitants are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin tongue (al-latini al-afriqi)."

Afrika Korps

After the defeat at El Alamein and the Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria Operation Torch, the OKW once more upgraded its presence in Africa by creating the XC Army Corps in Tunisia on 19 November 1942, and then creating a new 5th Panzer Army headquarters there as well on 8 December, under the command of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim.

Alice Cherki

She has written a number of books including Frantz Fanon: A Portrait which is based on her personal recollections of working with Fanon in Algeria and in Tunisia.

Allissa Richardson

Richardson began her journalism career in 2002 as a general assignment intern for the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York, after winning a Freedom Forum scholarship.

Alzheimer's Association, Central New York Chapter

Regional offices are located in the Nichols Notch Building at 401 Hayes Avenue in Endicott; 258 Genesee Street in Utica; and the HSBC Bank Building at 120 Washington Street, Suite 419, in Watertown.

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C.

Association Sportive d'Hammamet H.C (Arabic: الجمعية الرياضية بالحمامات ) is a Tunisian handball team based in Hammamet, that plays in Tunisian Professional Handball League.

Ben Ali

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (born 1936), former President of Tunisia, 1987–2011

Bonaventure Giffard

Henry Howard, brother to the Duke of Norfolk, was accordingly created bishop of Utica, in partibus, and nominated to the coadjutorship, cum jure successionis, on 2 October 1720, but he died before the end of the year, and in March 1720–1 the propaganda appointed Benjamin Petre coadjutor in his stead.

C. africanum

Cyclamen africanum, the African cyclamen, a perennial plant species native to northern Algeria and Tunisia

Carpenter, Mississippi

A former railroad town located seven miles from Utica in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, Carpenter was named for Joseph Neibert Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.

Crescent

These include: the flags of the kings of Damascus and Lucha (yellow with a white crescent); Cairo (white with a blue crescent); Mahdia in Tunisia (white with a purple crescent); Tunis (white with a black crescent); and Buda (white with a red crescent).

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

During the 1890s cycle races like the Cicero Plank Road Race in Cicero, New York and the Century run of the Century Road Club to Utica and back were very popular forms of entertainment and drew thousands of spectators.

Didier Ibrahim N'Dong

Born in Lambaréné, Gabon, Didier Ibrahim moved to Tunisia, where he made his professional debut playing for CS Sfaxien during the 2011–12 CLP-1 season.

Die Tunisreise

The former was done by Paul Klee, whose work was considerably influenced by his journey to Tunis, Tunisia, in 1914.

Due assi per un turbo

Most of the scenes were shot in South Tyrol, in Sterzing and near Bolzano, but the series was one of the first produced for the Italian television to use many foreign locations, ranging from Moscow, Tunisia, Poland and Spain.

France–Morocco relations

After the troubled periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France again showed a strong interest in Morocco in the 1830s, as a possible extension of her sphere of influence in the Maghreb, after Algeria and Tunisia.

Frederick Staples Benedict

Among the important works of his firm which he directed were the New York Athletic Club, United States Post Office at Orange, New Jersey, First Bank and Trust Company at Utica, New York, Brooklyn Trust Company, Rutgers College gymnasium, work at Vassar College and the University of Michigan.

Hamza Abu Faris

In 2000 Hamza Abu Faris received his Ph.D in Islamic Sciences, with an emphasis in comparative Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) from the University of Zaytuna in Tunisia; his doctoral thesis was entitled “Judge Abdul Wahab al-Baghdadi and his approach to Exegesis of the Prophetic Message.”

Henryk Kasperczak

During the tournament, Kasperczak was fired and replaced by Ali Selmi, after Tunisia lost the chance to pass the group stage, losing to England (0–2) and Colombia (0–1).

IND Eighth Avenue Line

Crossing to Williamsburg, the line was to have stops at Havemeyer Street, South Fourth Street (connections to the IND Crosstown Line and a major junction to the IND Houston Street Line, the IND Utica Ave Line and a connection to the Rockaways).

Italian destroyer Nicoloso da Recco

She shot down three Beaufort bombers while escorting a two-freighter convoy on 21 June 1942 off Tunisia.

Jay White

Now 1989, after an audition and a seven-week run in Reno, Nevada, Jay moved with his wife and three children from Utica, Michigan to Las Vegas to perform with Legends in the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.

Jean de Thévenot

In January 1659 he sailed from Alexandria in an English ship, visiting Goletta and Tunis (Tunisia) on the way, and, after a sharp engagement with Spanish corsairs, one of which fell a prize to the English merchantman, reached Leghorn (Italy) on 12 April.

Jean-François Copé

His maternal grandparents were Ismael André Ghanassia, a lawyer in Algiers (son of Moïse Ghanassia and Djouhar Soussi, from Miliana, in Algeria), and Lise Boukhabza (granddaughter of a Tunisian rabbi).

Maghreb Championships

North African Championship, a former football competition between French Algeria, French Morocco and French Tunisia

Mahmud Qabadu

When young, Mahmud Qabadu left Tunisia to study at a sufi center in Tripolitania, that of the Madaniyya tarika, a branch of the Darqawa.

Matteo Manuguerra

Manuguerra was born in Tunis, Tunisia, to Italian parents, who later moved to Argentina.

Mayte Carrasco

From 2009-2012, she worked as a professor on Journalism and a freelance journalist covering conflicts in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

Milan Kristić

Kristić was Tunisia's first ever foreign manager and was succeeded in that post by his compatriot Frane Matošić.

Mohawk Valley Prowlers

The Mohawk Valley Prowlers were a United Hockey League team which played from 1998 until January 2001 in Utica, New York.

Moncef El Materi

He established Al Adwya, one of Tunisia’s biggest private pharmaceutical companies, with his brother Tahar El Materi in the 1970s.

Mutala Mohammed

Mohammed was due to move to Tunisia to play for Étoile du Sahel in 2007, but returned to Ghana prior to the 2007-2008 pre-season.

Nahr al-Bared

Other sectors are more commonly known by the origins of the families living there: e.g. the "Maghrebi" area where families originally from Algeria, Tunisia or Morocco who had moved to Palestine in the 1930s now live.

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Rais Lebled

Rais Lebled (Head of State) is a political rap song, released in December 2010 by Tunisian rapper El Général, which has been referred to internationally as the "anthem of the Jasmine Revolution".

Raymond Han

The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, New York) and the Picker Art Gallery (Colgate College, Hamilton, New York) are among the public collections holding work by Raymond Han.

Richard Weinberger

At the 2012 Games, he won a bronze medal in the 10 km marathon, finishing behind Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia and Thomas Lurz of Germany.

Sabiha Al Khemir

She was born in Tunisia and grew up in Korba, Tunisia, where she attended Koranic school as a child.

Seneca, South Carolina

This village has been called Jordania, Londsdale, and Utica as the ownership of the plant changed.

Srđan Radonjić

Radonjić was part of the Serbia and Montenegro team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, which finished fourth in Group C, behind gold-medal winners Argentina, Australia and Tunisia.

Taghribat Bani Hilal

The Egyptian poet and writer Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi has made an exhaustive collection of the Sira, travelling from Egypt to Libya to Tunisia to document the variants of the epic.

Tamale Airport

The Airport has already received some international flights from South Africa, Tunisia and Angola during the CAN 2008 African Cup of nations, and it is hoped that with the addition of more facilities it would now be in the position to fly pilgrims from the north straight to Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj.

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

Transport in Tunisia

Tunisia has rail links with the neighbouring country of Algeria via the Ghardimaou-Souk Ahras line, and another connection to Tébessa, however, the latter link is currently not used.

Tunisian collaborative painting

The Jasmine Revolution ended a month later on January 10, 2011 when Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ruler of Tunisia for 23 years, fled the country.

Valentine Nwabili

Nwabili has played club football in Nigeria, Tunisia and France for Sharks, Espérance, Le Havre and Enyimba.


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