Bab El Allouj ( ar, باب العلوج) is one of the gates of the
medina of Tunis.
Built under the
Hafsid sultan
Abū lshâq Ibrâhîm al-Mustansir (1349–1369), it was named Bab er-Rehiba or "the small
esplanade gate". In 1435, it took the name of Bab El Allouj, when Sultan
Abu Amr Uthman brought his mother's family from Italy (his mother was a former Italian captive) and installed her in the esplanade quarter which became Rahbat El Allouj, (in the singular ), describing white foreigners and often Christian slaves.
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