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    Ghar el-Melh (Arabic: غارالملح, Ghar al-Milh, "Salt Grotto"), the classical Rusucmona and Castra Delia and colonial Porto Farina, is a town and former...
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    from the northern part during the Middle Ages and modern times. The Ghar el Melh lagoon is the last vestige of what used to be the Utica gulf. Following...
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    forms the northwestern end of the Gulf of Tunis. The Tunisian towns of Ghar el-Melh (the ancient Castra Delia), Rafraf, Lahmeri, and the beach of Plage Sidi...
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  • The Battle of Porto Farina took place at Porto Farina (now Ghar el-Melh) on April 4, 1655 in northern Tunisia, when an English fleet under Robert Blake...
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    Tunisia); 6th Brigade : formed part of the mhalla; 7th Brigade based in El Ghar Melh (Porto Farina). Also available from 1835 to 1860 were 4 artillery brigades...
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    although continued silting has rendered the present-day settlement at Ghar el-Melh a small farming community. Although Carthage was later founded about...
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    figure who lived there, Abu Said al-Baji, it was previously called Jabal el-Menar. The town itself is a tourist attraction and is known for its extensive...
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    Tunis (redirect from City El Khadra (Tunis))
    that Blake's fifteen ships attacked the Bey's arsenal at Porto Farina (Ghar el Melh), destroying nine Algerian ships and two shore batteries, the first time...
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    architecture. However, in the areas between the ports of Bizerte and Ghar El Melh, settlements founded by the Moors fleeing Andalusia were reconquered...
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    Koroneiki Koroneiki olives in Ghar El Melh, Tunisia Olive (Olea europaea) Origin Greece Use Oil...
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