El Kef
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| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Kef Governorate |
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| - Total | 45,191 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC1) |
El Kef (Arabic: الكاف, also transliterated as Al-Kāf or Le Kef) is a city in northwestern Tunisia. It is located at around . It is the capital of the Kef Governorate. Its name at the time of the Roman Empire was Sicca Veneria.[1]
The old town is built on the cliff face of the table-top Jebel Dyr mountain. El Kef was the provisional capital of Tunisia during World War II. It was the command centre of the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) during the Algerian War of Independence against the French in the 1950s. It has a population of 45,191 (2004 census).
[edit] References
- ^ By Anthony Ham, Abigail Hole (2004). Tunisia. Lonely Planet. ISBN 1741041899.
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