Sayada ( aeb, صيادة) is a city in the
Sahel
The Sahel (; ar, ساحل ' , "coast, shore") is a region in North Africa. It is defined as the ecoclimatic and biogeographic realm of transition between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian savanna to the south. Having a hot semi-arid c ...
region of
Tunisia
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. It is located about fifteen kilometers south of
Monastir. It is part of the
administrative governorate of Monastir, and is the county seat of the Sayada-Lamta-Bou Hajar
Delegation which has a population of 22,944.
"Résultats du Recensement 2004: Gouvernorat: Monastir" ''Institute National de la Statistique - Tunisie''
Description
The town is based around a small hill that overlooks the and the two small islands that make up the Kuriat archipelago. The built up area extends for over a mile in every direction from the hill but especially towards the flat tidal area.
Sayada is joined in a "delegation" with the smaller communities of Bouhjar and Lemta (which historically was known as Leptiminus and is still the site of international archaeology). Sayada itself is within the Monastir Governorate which administers the larger area from the city Monastir which is 12 miles inland.
Born here
* Rachid Ammar, Chief of Staff of the Tunisian Armed Forces[Alt URL]
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* Tahar Cheriaa, film critic and creator of the Carthage Film Festival
The Carthage Film Festival (CFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Tunis and founded in 1966. It is also called by its abbreviation JCC, from its French name, , or by its Arabic title, (''Cinema Days of Carthage''). Initially bi ...
Naceur Ktari
Naceur Ktari (born 1943) is a filmmaker from Tunisia.
Early life and education
Ktari was born in Sayada in Tunisia on 17 May 1943. Ktari studied film in Paris and later in Rome. He worked as an assistant on Raiders of the Lost Ark when Steven Spi ...
, award-winning film director
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Populated places in Monastir Governorate
Communes of Tunisia
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