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Massicault
Borj El Amri or Bordj El Amri ( ar, برج العامري) is a town in the Manouba Governorate of Tunisia. It is located southwest of Tunis. The town of Borj El Amri municipality contains 6,458 inhabitants and is the main town (''chef-lieu'') of the Borj El Amri delegation which has 18,977 inhabitants. It was created by a decree of the Bey of Tunis in 1904. At that time it was known as Massicault in honor of Justin Massicault, the Resident General of France in Tunisia from 1886 to 1892. It was renamed in 1961, it takes the name of Borj El Amri in connection with an ancient fortress (''borj''). Borj El Amri is home to the School of the Tunisian Air Force The Tunisian Air Force ( ar, جيش الطيران, french: Armée de l'Air) is one of the branches of the Tunisian Armed Forces. History The Tunisian Air Force was established in 1959, three years after Tunisia regained its independence from ... and is served by the Borj El Amri Airport. Climate References Note ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Massicault
Justin Théophile Athanase Massicault (September 14, 1838 – November 5, 1892) was a French journalist and government official. Born in Ourouer-les-Bourdelins ( Cher), Massicault was the child of two teachers and was at first a teacher himself, but then became a journalist at the daily Le Progrès in Lyon. In 1862 he joined the staff of ''La Gironde'', a Bordeaux daily, where he eventually became editor. Appointed prefect of the Haute-Vienne on October 25 of 1870, he resigned on February 6, 1871. He later founded several newspapers successively: ''L'Indépendance'' in Bordeaux, ''La Charente'' in Angouleme, and ''La Vienne'' in Poitiers.''Loges et francs-maçons de la Haute-Vienne : de l'Ancien Régime à la Cinquième République'', par Francis Masgnaud, chez L. Souny, 2000 He was appointed Prefect of the Rhône in 1882, and as resident-general in Tunisia on November 22 of 1886 till his death at Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borj El Amri Airport
Borj El Amri Airport is a small airport near Borj El Amri, a city in the Manouba Governorate of Tunisia. The airport is located southwest of Tunis and has a functional asphalt runway. The airport is used as a training site of the ''Aviation School of Borj El Amri'' belonging to the Tunesian Ministry of Defense. World War II During World War II, the airport was known as Massicault Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign. Known units assigned were:Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. . * 2d Bombardment Group, 31 Jul-2 Dec 1943, B-17 Flying Fortress * 320th Bombardment Group, 29 Jun-28 Jul 1943, B-26 Marauder * 68th Reconnaissance Group, Oct-Nov 1943, F-4/F-5 Lightning See also * Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress airfields in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations Units in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) were the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manouba Governorate
Manouba Governorate ( ar, ولاية منوبة ' ) is one of the twenty-four governorates (provinces) of Tunisia and is in inland, northern Tunisia. It has a population of 379,518 (as at the 2014 census), and an area of 1,137 km2. The capital is . Geography The governorate is from the capital, in an area of foothills of and verdant plains below the uplands and borders Bizerte,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunisia
) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa , image_map2 = , capital = Tunis , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , official_languages = Arabic Translation by the University of Bern: "Tunisia is a free State, independent and sovereign; its religion is the Islam, its language is Arabic, and its form is the Republic." , religion = , languages_type = Spoken languages , languages = Minority Dialects : Jerba Berber (Chelha) Matmata Berber Judeo-Tunisian Arabic (UNESCO CR) , languages2_type = Foreign languages , languages2 = , ethnic_groups = * 98% Arab * 2% Other , demonym = Tunisian , government_type = Unitary presidential republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = Kais Saied , leader_ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = , utc_offset1_DST = , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 1xxx, 2xxx , area_code_type = Calling code , area_code = 71 , iso_code = TN-11, TN-12, TN-13 and TN-14 , blank_name_sec2 = geoTLD , blank_info_sec2 = .tn , website = , footnotes = Tunis ( ar, تونس ') is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as " Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chef-lieu
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many African countries), a (, plural form , literally 'chief place' or 'main place'), is a town or city that is important from an administrative perspective. Algeria The capital of an Algerian province is called a chef-lieu. The capital of a district, the next largest division, is also called a chef-lieu, whilst the capital of the lowest division, the municipalities, is called agglomération de chef-lieu (chef-lieu agglomeration) and is abbreviated as A.C.L. Belgium The chef-lieu in Belgium is the administrative centre of each of the ten provinces of Belgium. Three of these cities also give their name to their province (Antwerp, Liège and Namur). France The chef-lieu of a département is known as the ''préfec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delegations Of Tunisia
The delegations of Tunisia (''mutamadiyah'', plural ''mutamadiyat'') are the second level administrative divisions of Tunisia between the governorates and the sectors (''imadats''). there were 24 governorates which were divided into 264 delegations and further divided into 2073 sectors. The delegations are listed below, organized by governorate. Ariana Delegations of Ariana: *Ariana *Ettadhamen * Kalaat El Andalous * Mnihla * Raoued * Sidi Thabet * Soukra Beja Delegations of Beja: * Amdoun * Beja * Goubellat *Majaz al Bab * Nefza * Teboursouk *Testour *Thibar Ben Arous Delegations of Ben Arous: * Ben Arous *Bou Mhel el-Bassatine *El Mourouj *Ezzahra *Fouchana *Hammam Chott *Hammam Lif *Mohamedia *Medina Jedida * Megrine *Mornag * Rades Bizerte Delegations of Bizerte: * Bizerte *Djoumime *El Alia * Ghar El Melh *Ghezala *Mateur *Menzel Bourguiba *Menzel Jemil *Ras Jebel * Sejenane * Tinja * Utica *Zarzouna Gabès Delegations of Gabès: * Gabes * Ghannouch *Hamma *Mareth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used for this concept may vary from country to country. The ''executive orders'' made by the President of the United States, for example, are decrees (although a decree is not exactly an order). Decree by jurisdiction Belgium In Belgium, a decree is a law of a community or regional parliament, e.g. the Flemish Parliament. France The word ''décret'', literally "decree", is an old legal usage in France and is used to refer to executive orders issued by the French President or Prime Minister. Any such order must not violate the French Constitution or Civil Code, and a party has the right to request an order be annulled in the French Council of State. Orders must be ratified by Parliament before they can be modified into legislative Acts. Special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bey Of Tunis
Bey ( ota, بك, beğ, script=Arab, tr, bey, az, bəy, tk, beg, uz, бек, kz, би/бек, tt-Cyrl, бәк, translit=bäk, cjs, пий/пек, sq, beu/bej, sh, beg, fa, بیگ, beyg/, tg, бек, ar, بك, bak, gr, μπέης) is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and an honorific, traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe. The feminine equivalent title was begum. The regions or provinces where "beys" ruled or which they administered were called ''beylik'', roughly meaning "governorate" and/or "region" (the equivalent of county in other parts of Europe). However the exact scope of power handed to the beks (alternative spelling to beys) varied with each country, thus there was no clear-cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resident General
A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indirect rule. A resident usually heads an administrative area called a residency. "Resident" may also refer to resident spy, the chief of an espionage operations base. Resident ministers This full style occurred commonly as a diplomatic rank for the head of a mission ranking just below envoy, usually reflecting the relatively low status of the states of origin and/or residency, or else difficult relations. On occasion, the resident minister's role could become extremely important, as when in 1806 the Bourbon king Ferdinand IV fled his Kingdom of Naples, and Lord William Bentinck, the British Resident, authored (1812) a new and relatively liberal constitution. Residents could also be posted to nations which had significant foreign influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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