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From 1540 to 1742, the Genoese maintained a garrison on the adjacent island, also called Tabarka, which lies about {{convert|365|yd|sp=us}} off the town. In 1540 the island was given by the Ottoman Bey of Tunis as a concession to the Genoese Lomellini family.<ref>Thomas Allison Kirk, Genoa and the Sea, JHU Press, 2013</ref> The Genoese were in the service of Spain during 1553 at the request of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles V]] who was interested in coral fishing. The Lomellini were part of the circle of [[Andrea Doria]], Doge of Genoa, and were related to the [[House of Grimaldi|Grimaldi]] family.  The grant was possibly due to a secret ransom for the release of the pirate Turkish [[Dragut]], captured in 1540 by Giannettino Doria, nephew of Andrea Doria. The Lomellini colonized Tabarca with a group of inhabitants of [[Pegli]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lastampa.it/2012/05/01/societa/viaggi/home-cover/l-isola-di-tabarka-e-le-tracce-dei-genovesi-I4Wnl6mzUmuPSygQXZ3h7J/pagina.html |title=L'Isola di Tabarka e le tracce dei genovesi |website=www.lastampa.it |date= May 2012|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> near Genoa, where they had various properties and a huge palace. The community of Pegliesi lived in Tabarka for several centuries.
From 1540 to 1742, the Genoese maintained a garrison on the adjacent island, also called Tabarka, which lies about {{convert|365|yd|sp=us}} off the town. In 1540 the island was given by the Ottoman Bey of Tunis as a concession to the Genoese Lomellini family.<ref>Thomas Allison Kirk, Genoa and the Sea, JHU Press, 2013</ref> The Genoese were in the service of Spain during 1553 at the request of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles V]] who was interested in coral fishing. The Lomellini were part of the circle of [[Andrea Doria]], Doge of Genoa, and were related to the [[House of Grimaldi|Grimaldi]] family.  The grant was possibly due to a secret ransom for the release of the pirate Turkish [[Dragut]], captured in [[Battle of Girolata|Girolata in 1540]] by Giannettino Doria, nephew of Andrea Doria. The Lomellini colonized Tabarca with a group of inhabitants of [[Pegli]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lastampa.it/2012/05/01/societa/viaggi/home-cover/l-isola-di-tabarka-e-le-tracce-dei-genovesi-I4Wnl6mzUmuPSygQXZ3h7J/pagina.html |title=L'Isola di Tabarka e le tracce dei genovesi |website=www.lastampa.it |date= May 2012|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> near Genoa, where they had various properties and a huge palace. The community of Pegliesi lived in Tabarka for several centuries.


In 1738 due to the exhaustion of the coral reefs and the deterioration of relations with the Arab population a large group of "Tabarkini" moved to [[San Pietro Island]] off Sardinia, then uninhabited, where they founded a new town of [[Carloforte]]. The transfer was made possible thanks to the King of Sardinia, [[Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia]] who wanted to colonize those of his lands which were not yet inhabited. The name of Carloforte was chosen in honor of the sovereign. Another group of Tabarkini was resettled in the town of [[Calasetta]] on the adjacent Island of [[Isola di Sant'Antioco|Sant'Antioco]], whose population still speaks a variant of [[Genoese dialect]] originating from Tabarka.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/calasetta |title= Calasetta|website=Sardegna Turismo |access-date=4 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205014819/https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/calasetta |archive-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> Others were moved to the Spanish island of [[Tabarca|New Tabarca]].<ref name=alicgen>{{cite book|title=Alicante / Alacant, Tabarca: Rutas de aproximación al patrimonio cultural valenciano / Rutes d'aproximació al patrimoni cultural valencià|last=Varela|first=Santiago|others=Juan Calduch; Joaquín Lara (graphic dessing)|year=1983|language=es, ca|publisher=Servicio de patrimonio arquitectónico: Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y Ciencia: Generalidad Valenciana|chapter=Nueva Tabarca / Nova Tabarca: 1. Generalidades / 1. Generalitats}}</ref> In 1741{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} or 1742,<ref name=ce/> the Genoese fortress surrendered to the (nominally Ottoman but essentially autonomous) [[Bey of Tunis]]. At Tabarka, the ruins consists of a pit once used as a church and some fragments of walls which belonged to Christian buildings. There were also two Ottoman Turkish fortresses, one of which has been repaired. A French [[Tabarka expedition (1742)|expedition]] was dispatched to capture Tabarka but failed.
In 1738 due to the exhaustion of the coral reefs and the deterioration of relations with the Arab population a large group of "Tabarkini" moved to [[San Pietro Island]] off Sardinia, then uninhabited, where they founded a new town of [[Carloforte]]. The transfer was made possible thanks to the King of Sardinia, [[Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia]] who wanted to colonize those of his lands which were not yet inhabited. The name of Carloforte was chosen in honor of the sovereign. Another group of Tabarkini was resettled in the town of [[Calasetta]] on the adjacent Island of [[Isola di Sant'Antioco|Sant'Antioco]], whose population still speaks a variant of [[Genoese dialect]] originating from Tabarka.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/calasetta |title= Calasetta|website=Sardegna Turismo |access-date=4 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205014819/https://www.sardegnaturismo.it/en/point-of-interest/calasetta |archive-date=5 February 2017}}</ref> Others were moved to the Spanish island of [[Tabarca|New Tabarca]].<ref name=alicgen>{{cite book|title=Alicante / Alacant, Tabarca: Rutas de aproximación al patrimonio cultural valenciano / Rutes d'aproximació al patrimoni cultural valencià|last=Varela|first=Santiago|others=Juan Calduch; Joaquín Lara (graphic dessing)|year=1983|language=es, ca|publisher=Servicio de patrimonio arquitectónico: Conselleria de Cultura, Educación y Ciencia: Generalidad Valenciana|chapter=Nueva Tabarca / Nova Tabarca: 1. Generalidades / 1. Generalitats}}</ref> In 1741{{citation needed|date=November 2018}} or 1742,<ref name=ce/> the Genoese fortress surrendered to the (nominally Ottoman but essentially autonomous) [[Bey of Tunis]]. At Tabarka, the ruins consists of a pit once used as a church and some fragments of walls which belonged to Christian buildings. There were also two Ottoman Turkish fortresses, one of which has been repaired. A French [[Tabarka expedition (1742)|expedition]] was dispatched to capture Tabarka but failed.

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Tabarka (Template:Langx {{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Tbar9a.wav" not found}}Template:Category handler) is a coastal town located in north-western Tunisia, close to the border with Algeria. Tabarka was occupied at various times by Punics, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Genoese and Ottomans. The town is dominated by an offshore rock on which there remains a Genoese castle. Nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba, later president of post-independence Tunisia, was exiled on Tabarka by the French colonial authorities in 1952.[1] Tourist attractions include coral fishing, the Coralis Festival of underwater photography,[2] and its annual jazz festival.[3]

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Name

Tabarka was known to the Carthaginians as Template:Sc (Template:Langx).Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp This was transcribed into Greek as Thaúbraka (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and into Latin as Thabraca.[4][5] In modern day Berber it is known as Tabarka or Tbarga, while its Arabic name is Ṭbarqa (Script error: No such module "Lang".).

History

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Tarbarka island, 17th century. Note the Genoese flag on the castle.

Although older sources placed Thabraca within the Roman province of Numidia, recent ones agree on placing it in the Roman province of Africa, known also as Africa Proconsularis.[6][7][8][9] It was a Roman colony.[10] It was connected by a road with Simitthu, which it served as a port for the export of its famous marble.[10] The rebellious Roman official Gildo, the brother of Firmus, committed suicide in Thabraca.[10] Under the Vandal king Gaiseric, the town had a monastery for men and a convent for women.[10]

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Fort diagram
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From 1540 to 1742, the Genoese maintained a garrison on the adjacent island, also called Tabarka, which lies about Template:Convert off the town. In 1540 the island was given by the Ottoman Bey of Tunis as a concession to the Genoese Lomellini family.[11] The Genoese were in the service of Spain during 1553 at the request of Emperor Charles V who was interested in coral fishing. The Lomellini were part of the circle of Andrea Doria, Doge of Genoa, and were related to the Grimaldi family. The grant was possibly due to a secret ransom for the release of the pirate Turkish Dragut, captured in Girolata in 1540 by Giannettino Doria, nephew of Andrea Doria. The Lomellini colonized Tabarca with a group of inhabitants of Pegli,[12] near Genoa, where they had various properties and a huge palace. The community of Pegliesi lived in Tabarka for several centuries.

In 1738 due to the exhaustion of the coral reefs and the deterioration of relations with the Arab population a large group of "Tabarkini" moved to San Pietro Island off Sardinia, then uninhabited, where they founded a new town of Carloforte. The transfer was made possible thanks to the King of Sardinia, Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia who wanted to colonize those of his lands which were not yet inhabited. The name of Carloforte was chosen in honor of the sovereign. Another group of Tabarkini was resettled in the town of Calasetta on the adjacent Island of Sant'Antioco, whose population still speaks a variant of Genoese dialect originating from Tabarka.[13] Others were moved to the Spanish island of New Tabarca.[14] In 1741Script error: No such module "Unsubst". or 1742,[10] the Genoese fortress surrendered to the (nominally Ottoman but essentially autonomous) Bey of Tunis. At Tabarka, the ruins consists of a pit once used as a church and some fragments of walls which belonged to Christian buildings. There were also two Ottoman Turkish fortresses, one of which has been repaired. A French expedition was dispatched to capture Tabarka but failed.

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Close view

Under French colonial rule it was annexed to the civil district of Souk el-Arba, now in the Tunisian governorate of Jendouba, and a rather important fishing centre. Tabarka Jazz Festival was established in 1973.

Ecclesiastical history

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Tabarka Fort

Thabraca became a Christian bishopric that is no longer a residential see but is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[9]

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View of Tabarka's fort
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Snow in Tabarka's forest
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Tabarka snowfall in a forest

was also the seat of an ancient Bishopric and in antiquity it had a monastery for men and one for women,[10] and several church Buildings and Christian cemeteries have been uncovered.[15] The city contains several Christian cemeteries, many of the tombs covered with curious mosaics. An inscription (C.I.L., VIII, 173-82) mentions the cult of the martyr Anastasia and her companions.

Bishops

The bishops of Thabraca, who met with the other bishops of Proconsular Africa, included:

  • Victoricus, at the Council of Carthage (256)[16]
  • Rusticianus, at the conference of Carthage in 411, where his competitor was the Donatist Charentius; he also signed in 416 the letter from the council of Proconsular Africa to Pope Innocent I;
  • Clarissimus, who in 646 signed the letter from the same Council to Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople against the Monothelites.

The Bishopric was founded during the Roman Empire and survived through the arian Vandal and Orthodox Byzantine empires, only ceasing to function with the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. The diocese was re-founded in name at least in the 20th century as a titular see of the Roman Catholic church.[17][18]

Titular bishops

Weather

Climate

The weather in Tabarka is usually variable from year to year. Summers are mostly hot and dry, but milder than the Saharan hinterland. It barely rains in July and August. The average temperatures for this season is Template:Convert. Winters are mostly rainy and mild. The average temperature for this season is Template:Convert.

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Tabarka mean sea temperature[19]
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Transport

The airport in Tabarka was named Airport 7 Novembre until the Tunisian revolution; it was then renamed Tabarka-Ain Draham International Airport.

See also

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Gallery

References

Citations

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Notes

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Bibliography

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External links

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  1. ↑ Derek Hopwood & Sue Mi Terry, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia:The Tragedy of Longevity, Springer 2016 p.72
  2. ↑ Elżbieta Lisowscy, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Tunisia, Dorling Kindersley 2011 p.41
  3. ↑ Donna Wheeler, Paul Clammer & Emilie Filou, Tunisia: Lonely Planet, 2010 p.284
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  9. ↑ a b Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, Template:ISBN), p. 979
  10. ↑ a b c d e f Thabraca at Catholic Encyclopedia.org
  11. ↑ Thomas Allison Kirk, Genoa and the Sea, JHU Press, 2013
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  15. ↑ Thabraca at New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia.
  16. ↑ A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West, Volume 17 (J.H. Parker, 1844) p294.
  17. ↑ Titular Episcopal See of Thabraca at GCatholic.org.
  18. ↑ a b Thabraca at catholic-hierarchy.org.
  19. ↑ Weather2Travel - Tabarka. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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