Kalaat es Senam, Kalaat Senan, or Kalâat Snan (

Tunisian Arabic Tunisian Arabic, or simply Tunisian, is a set of dialects of Maghrebi Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It is known among its over 11 million speakers aeb, translit=Tounsi/Tounsiy, label=as, تونسي , "Tunisian" or "Everyday Language" to distingu ...

: قلعة سنان) is a town in western

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in the

Kef Governorate Kef Governorate ( ' ) is one of the twenty-four governorates of Tunisia. It comprises chiefly part of the dorsal Atlas Mountains and their foothills in north-western Tunisia, bordering Algeria. It covers an area of 4,965 km2 and has a popul ...

. It is the administrative center of Kalaat Senan Delegation and had 15,621 inhabitants ( census)."Résultats du Recensement 2004: Gouvernorat: Le Kef" ''Institute National de la Statistique - Tunisie''
, in French The town is a market town for the agriculture in the area, where wheat and oats are grown and cattle and sheep are grazed. Kalaat es Senam is named after the nearby fortress ( qalat) built upon the

Jugurtha Tableland The Jugurtha Tableland is a large mesa near the town of Kalaat es Senam, Tunisia, which stands almost above the Ez-Zghalma plain. long and wide, it covers a total area of nearly 80 hectares. The Tableland is a geologic feature known as an inve ...

mesa A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by ...

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Photographs of the Jugurtha Tableland
{{Authority control Populated places in Tunisia Communes of Tunisia