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  1. Complete the sentence about Sfax with the correct year: Sfax became an integral base of the Barbary piracy, prompting an unsuccessful invasion by Venice in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Sfax with the correct year: Abou Yahya Abou Bekr finally re-established Hafsid unity and recaptured Kerkennah from the Christians in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Sfax with the correct year: Towards ______, following the arrival of Caliph Abdul-Abbas, Sfax returned under the Hafsid era.
  4. Complete the sentence about Sfax with the correct year: In ______, the privateer Barberousse entered Tunis, proclaimed the decline of the Hafsids and effortlessly reunited the towns of the coast, amon…
  5. Complete the sentence about Bizerte with the correct year: With its occupation of Tunisia in ______, France gained control of Bizerte and built a large naval harbour in the city.
  6. Complete the sentence about Bizerte with the correct year: In March ______, towards the end of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish Republican Navy Commander Miguel Buiza ordered the evacuation of the bulk…
  7. Complete the sentence about Bizerte with the correct year: During the Second World War, the German and Italian armies occupied Bizerte until Allied troops defeated them on 7 May ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Bizerte with the correct year: Due to Bizerte's strategic location on the Mediterranean, France retained control of the city and their naval base after Tunisian independenc…
  9. Complete the sentence about Bizerte with the correct year: In ______ Tunisian forces blockaded the area of Bizerte and demanded French withdrawal.
  10. Complete the sentence about Gabès with the correct year: During World War II, the city served as the headquarters for Germany's Afrika Korps until British and French forces retook it in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Gabès with the correct year: During the Ottoman period, in ______, Gabès became part of the Eyalet of Tunis, further cementing its role as a strategic trading hub in the Me…
  12. Complete the sentence about Ben Arous with the correct year: East Ben Arous is on the Sidi Fathallah Plain, and is named after Muslim saint Sidi Ben Arous who died in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Kasserine with the correct year: During World War II, from January to March ______, the Germans operated a forced labour camp for Jews in the city.
  14. Complete the sentence about Kasserine with the correct year: In February ______, it was the site of the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
  15. Complete the sentence about Medenine with the correct year: The area was the scene of an unsuccessful German counter-attack by General Erwin Rommel as part of Operation Capri during March ______ again…
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The same happened during 11 September ______ attacks and the Iraq War.
  17. Complete the sentence about Mahdia with the correct year: The Zirid dynasty, which succeeded the Fatimids in the Maghreb, moved their capital here in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Mahdia with the correct year: In ______, the town was attacked by raiding ships from Genoa and Pisa who burned the Muslim fleet in the harbor.
  19. Complete the sentence about Djerba with the correct year: In the first stage, Kairouan experienced prosperity for 78 years until the arrival of the Hilalids in the year ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Houmt Souk with the correct year: In ______, upon Tunisian independence, it became the capital of Djerba.
  21. Complete the sentence about Sidi Bou Said with the correct year: French singer Patrick Bruel referenced Sidi Bou Said and the Café des Délices in his song Au Café des Délices from the ______ album Jus…
  22. Complete the sentence about Carthage with the correct year: The archaeological site was first surveyed in ______, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe.
  23. Complete the sentence about Dougga with the correct year: UNESCO qualified Dougga as a World Heritage Site in ______, believing that it represents "the best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa"…
  24. Complete the sentence about El Djem with the correct year: The ruins of the amphitheatre were declared a World Heritage Site in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Sbeitla with the correct year: Sbeitla is the capital of the largest delegation in the Kasserine Governorate with an area of ______.5 km.
  26. Complete the sentence about Medina of Tunis with the correct year: In ______, he had Ottoman architects build the Hammouda Pacha Mosque in the Turkish style, with an elegant octagonal minaret, below w…
  27. Complete the sentence about Medina of Tunis with the correct year: In ______ he began demolishing them, along with a number of the Medina's historic gates: Bab Cartagena, Bab Souika, Bab Bnet and Bab…
  28. Complete the sentence about Zaytuna Mosque with the correct year: In ______ king Martin I of Sicily requested the return of Saint Olivia's relics from the Berber Caliph of Ifriqiya Abu Faris Abd al-Az…
  29. Complete the sentence about Bardo National Museum with the correct year: First proposed in the 1860s by Muhammad Khaznadar, the son of the Prime Minister of Tunisia, the museum has been housed in an o…
  30. Complete the sentence about Medina of Sousse with the correct year: Designated by the UNESCO a World Heritage Site in ______, it is a typical example of the architecture of the early centuries of Isla…
  31. Complete the sentence about Tunisia with the correct year: In ______, Tunisia gained independence as the Tunisian Republic.
  32. Complete the sentence about Jebel ech Chambi with the correct year: UNESCO designated Jebel ech Chambi as a biosphere reserve in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Jebel ech Chambi with the correct year: The core area was inaugurated as Chambi National Park in ______ to protect the natural environment of the massif.
  34. Complete the sentence about Medjerda River with the correct year: Following the last big flood in ______, the Medjerda shifted, once again, its course.
  35. Complete the sentence about Kerkennah Islands with the correct year: In ______, the Kerkennah Islands were raided by an Aragonese expedition.
  36. Complete the sentence about Kerkennah Islands with the correct year: During the Second World War, the Battle of the Tarigo Convoy was fought near the islands on 16 April ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Lampedusa with the correct year: In ______, Don García de Toledo made a brief stop at Lampedusa while leading a relief force to break the Great Siege of Malta.
  38. Complete the sentence about Lampedusa with the correct year: In ______, the island was given to Ferdinand Tomasi of Palermo, who acquired the title of Prince of Lampedusa from King Charles II of Spain…
  39. Complete the sentence about Mediterranean Sea with the correct year: Around ______ BC the eastern Mediterranean was greatly affected by the Bronze Age Collapse, which resulted in the destruction of ma…
  40. Complete the sentence about Tunis–Carthage International Airport with the correct year: The history of the airport dates back to ______ when the first seaplane base in Tunisia was built on the Lake of…
  41. Complete the sentence about Tunis–Carthage International Airport with the correct year: During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Air Force Twelfth Air Force as a headquarters and…
  42. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 23 September ______ a new terminal opened for charter flights.
  43. Complete the sentence about Djerba–Zarzis International Airport with the correct year: The airport was enlarged and named Djerba Zarzis International Airport in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Rades with the correct year: The Maxula-Radès tramway to the sea was tram line that ran between Maxula-Radès station and the Mediterranean coast from ______ and until the 1…
  45. Complete the sentence about Rades with the correct year: The Beylical Decree of 7 July ______ approved the agreement signed on 23 June of the same year between the Director of Public Works and Mr.
  46. Complete the sentence about Avenue Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: In addition, the Cathédrale Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de Tunis was completed in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Avenue Habib Bourguiba with the correct year: At the advent of independence in ______, the statue was toppled and the avenue was renamed after the new president Habib Bourg…
  48. Complete the sentence about Dar Ben Abdallah with the correct year: In ______, the office of Tunisian arts bought the house and made it the popular arts and traditions museum of Tunis.
  49. Complete the sentence about Dar Ben Abdallah with the correct year: In ______, the palace got transformed into a museum exposing the daily life of tunisian nobles of the Medina of Tunis in the 19th an…
  50. Complete the sentence about Fennec fox with the correct year: The fennec fox was scientifically described as Canis zerda by Eberhardt Zimmermann in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Fennec fox with the correct year: In ______, Johann Friedrich Gmelin gave the species the synonym of Canis cerdo with the type locality being the Sahara Desert.
  52. Complete the sentence about Fennec fox with the correct year: A few years later, Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer assigned the name Viverra aurita to the species in ______; the type locality was Algeria…
  53. Complete the sentence about Fennec fox with the correct year: In ______ Gordon Barclay Corbet renamed the species to Vulpes zerda, its current scientific name.
  54. Complete the sentence about Barbary macaque with the correct year: The Barbary macaque was included in the grouping Simia by Conrad Gessner in his ______ work Historia Animalium, a name which he claim…
  55. Complete the sentence about Barbary macaque with the correct year: Gessner's Simia was subsequently used as one of Carl Linnaeus' four primate genera when he published Systema Naturae in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Dorcas gazelle with the correct year: The species was first described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Addax with the correct year: The only member of the genus Addax, it was first described scientifically by Henri de Blainville in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Flamingo with the correct year: The family Phoenicopteridae was introduced by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in ______, with Phoenicopterus as the type genus…
  59. Complete the sentence about Star Wars with the correct year: In ______, George Lucas wanted to film an adaptation of the Flash Gordon serial, but could not obtain the rights, so he began developing hi…
  60. Complete the sentence about Mos Espa with the correct year: Tatooine originally featured in the ______ film Star Wars, and was the first planet to be seen in the film franchise.
  61. Complete the sentence about Testour with the correct year: The city host an international festival of Malouf and traditional Maghrebi music since ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Thuburbo Majus with the correct year: In ______ an inscription found in Thuburbo Majus written in honor of C.
  63. Complete the sentence about Thuburbo Majus with the correct year: Remains of the house of Bacchus and Ariadne dating back to the early 5th century were excavated in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Haidra with the correct year: The diocese was nominally restored as Ammædæra of Ammædera and renamed Ammædara in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Siliana with the correct year: In April ______ the Silianian people participated in the first Tunisian revolution against the police, the first Tunisian opposition to their…
  66. Complete the sentence about Jendouba with the correct year: Under the French, Jendouba Ville is remembered as the Tunisian area where the civil demand for independence from French colonization started…
  67. Complete the sentence about Jendouba with the correct year: The protests started in the town of Oued Meliz on April 4, ______, before arriving in the capital and becoming a national movement.
  68. Complete the sentence about Jendouba with the correct year: During Operation Torch, the town was captured by paratroops of the British 1st Parachute Brigade on 16 November ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Béja with the correct year: On April 24, ______, Béja in its turn was occupied by the column led by Logerot who had arrived from Algeria through the Kef.
  70. Complete the sentence about Béja with the correct year: On November 16, ______, a German military delegation came to Béja to give Mayor Jean Hugon a 24-hour ultimatum to surrender the city.
  71. Complete the sentence about Kelibia with the correct year: Since ______, Kélibia has hosted the Kelibia International Amateur Film Festival, the oldest of its kind in the country.
  72. Complete the sentence about Tabarka with the correct year: Nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba, later president of post-independence Tunisia, was exiled on Tabarka by the French colonial authorities in…
  73. Complete the sentence about Tabarka with the correct year: In ______ the island was given by the Ottoman Bey of Tunis as a concession to the Genoese Lomellini family.
  74. Complete the sentence about Tabarka with the correct year: The Genoese were in the service of Spain during ______ at the request of Emperor Charles V who was interested in coral fishing.
  75. Complete the sentence about Tabarka with the correct year: The grant was possibly due to a secret ransom for the release of the pirate Turkish Dragut, captured in Girolata in ______ by Giannettino Dor…
  76. Complete the sentence about Aïn Draham with the correct year: The city is located in one of the most humid areas of Tunisia and holds the record for the highest average rainfall at ______ mm per year.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Sfax? The city is the second-most populous in the country after the capital, ______.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Sfax? In 1534, the privateer Barberousse entered ______, proclaimed the decline of the Hafsids and effortlessly reunited the towns of the coast, among them th…
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Gabès? During the Ottoman period, in 1574, Gabès became part of the Eyalet of ______, further cementing its role as a strategic trading hub in the Mediterrane…
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Gafsa? With a population of 120,739, Gafsa is the ninth-largest Tunisian city and is 335 km from the country's capital, ______.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Gafsa? After the Arab conquest, Capsa started to lose importance, replaced by Muslim-founded ______.
  82. Which place completes the sentence? A farm was laid out on the plain where ______ Road is planned to be built.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Djerba? In the first stage, ______ experienced prosperity for 78 years until the arrival of the Hilalids in the year 1049.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Houmt Souk? In 1956, upon Tunisian independence, it became the capital of ______.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Houmt Souk? Houmt Souk is located on a plain on the northern coast of ______.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Sidi Bou Said? In the 18th century, wealthy citizens of the Beylik of ______ built residences in Sidi Bou Said.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Sbeitla? Sbeitla is the capital of the largest delegation in the ______ Governorate with an area of 1133.5 km.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Zaytuna Mosque? Al-Zaytuna was the second mosque to be built in Ifriqiya and the Maghreb region after the Mosque of Uqba in ______.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Great Mosque of Kairouan? Around 690, shortly after its construction, the mosque was destroyed during the occupation of ______ by the Berbers, originally cond…
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Bardo National Museum? In addition to famous works such as the Blue Koran of ______, the Islamic Department contains a collection of ceramics from North Afric…
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Ribat of Monastir? According to Michael Palin, the first scene filmed at the Ribat of ______ was the stoning scene along the outside wall.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Ribat of Sousse? Although a large number of ribats were built in the region during that period, the Ribat of ______ is by far the best-preserved.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Ribat of Sousse? A mosque was also established on the terrace and used by the citizens of ______ especially during the Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Medina of Sousse? The Medina of ______ is located in the Tunisian Sahel and forms an outstanding archeological site.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Medina of Sfax? The medina is home to about 113,000 residents, and is dominated by the Great Mosque of ______.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Medina of Sfax? Historic sources talk about the existence of a Roman city around the zone in which ______ now exists called Taparura.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Ichkeul National Park? Ichkeul National Park is a World Heritage Site located in the north of Tunisia, 25 km southwest of ______ and 15 km north of Mateur.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of Hammamet? The Gulf of ______ is located south of the Cape Bon peninsula.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Sfax Governorate? The area code for telephoning to the ______ governorate is 30.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Sousse Governorate? The largest lake is the Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani which is shared with two other areas but is mostly in the ______ Governorate.

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