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Tunisia Old Postcard SFAX Panorama Street Scene General View Africa Safaqis CAP1

Publisher: CAP
Series No: 1
Background: Sfax or Safaqis is a city in Tunisia, located 220 km southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Taparura and Thaenae, is the capital of the Sfax governorate, and a Mediterranean port on the Gulf of Gabes. Sfax has population of 340,000 (2005), and is an industrial center for processing phosphates. The city is often described as Tunisia's Second city, because only Tunis has more population.

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