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HISTORY. Tunisia was a French protectorate from 1883 and achieved independence on 20 March 1956. The Constituent Assembly, elected on 25 March 1956, abolished the monarchy (of the Bey of Tunis) on 25 July 1957 and proclaimed a republic.
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Statistical Information: Institut National de la Statistique (27 Rue de Liban, Tunis) was set up in 1947. Its main publications are: Annitaire statistique de la Tunisie (latest issue, 1975).
Findlay, Allan M., Findlay, Anne M., and Lawless, R. I., Tunisia. [Bibliography] Oxford and Santa Barbara. 1982
Ling, D. L., Tunisia: From Protectorate to Republic. Indiana Univ. Press, 1967
Rudebeck, L., The Tunisian Experience: Party and People. London, 1970
Salem, N., Habib Bourguiba. Islam and the Creation of Tunisia. London, 1984
Tomkinson, M., Tunisia: A Holiday Guide. London and Hammamet, 1984
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Paxton, J. (1986). Tunisia. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271159_166
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