Tunisia

Proper noun

Meaning

Ottoman Tunisia; the Eyalet of Tunis, from 1534 to 1881

French protectorate of Tunisia, from 1881 to 1956

The Republic of Tunisia, since 1956

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Examples

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page. Habib Bourguiba

I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous. Habib Bourguiba

Italy as you know is the closest neighbour of both Tunisia and Libya so we are extremely concerned about the repercussions on the migratory situation in the southern Mediterranean. Franco Frattini

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. Eric Alterman

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it. A. J. Liebling

Bourguiba warning the French: "it will mean war. ... Today I am the President of the Republic, but I will be the first to join the Maquis. ... Tunisia is always ready to turn the page. ... I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away." Habib Bourguiba

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