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Tunisia’s earliest inhabitants included the semi-nomadic Berbers, whose descendants still live in North Africa’s Atlas Mountains. Phoenician merchants established trading settlements throughout the central and western Mediterranean from the 10th century BC and founded the port of Carthage in 814 BC. By the 5th century Carthage had become the most powerful city in the western Mediterranean with an empire extending from present-day Morocco to Egypt and controlling Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, Malta and much of Sicily. A rival to the Roman Empire, the city was eventually destroyed in the Third Punic War. From 146 BC Tunisia was absorbed into the Roman Empire and its people sold into slavery.
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Hassan, Fareed M. A., Tunisia: Understanding Successful Socioeconomic Development. The World Bank, Washington, D. C., 2005
Murphy, Emma C., Economic and Political Change in Tunisia: From Bourguiba to Ben Ali. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2003
Pazzanita, A. G., The Maghreb. [Bibliography] ABC-Clio, Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1998
National Statistical Office: Institut National de la Statistique, 70 Rue Echcham, BP 265 CEDEX, Tunis.
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Turner, B. (2009). Tunisia. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2010. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58632-5_285
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