French protectorate of Tunisia
The French protectorate of Tunisia (French: Protectorat français de Tunisie; Arabic: الحماية الفرنسية في تونس <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">al-Ḥimāya al-Fransīya fī Tūnis), commonly known as French Tunisia, was created in 1881, during the French colonial Empire era, and lasted until Tunisian independence in 1956.[1][2]
French protectorate of Tunisia Protectorat français de Tunisie الحماية الفرنسية في تونس | |||||||||
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| 1881–1956 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: | |||||||||
 Tunisia (dark blue) French possessions in Africa (light blue) 1913 | |||||||||
| Status | Protectorate | ||||||||
| Capital | Tunis | ||||||||
| Common languages | French Italian Berber languages Standard Arabic Tunisian Arabic Judeo-Tunisian Arabic | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Tunisian | ||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy under French protectorate | ||||||||
| Bey | |||||||||
• 1859–1882 (first) | Muhammad III as-Sadiq | ||||||||
• 1943–1956 (last) | Muhammad VIII al-Amin | ||||||||
| Resident-General | |||||||||
• 1885–1886 (first) | Paul Cambon | ||||||||
• 1955–1956 (last) | Roger Seydoux[a] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• | 12 May 1881 | ||||||||
• | 20 March 1956 | ||||||||
| Currency | Tunisian rial (until 1891) Tunisian franc (1891–1958) | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Tunisia | ||||||||
French Protectorate Of Tunisia Media
National anthem of France, La Marseillaise
Portrait of the Bey Muhammad III Sadiq.
Map of Tunisia (wp-EN) with french names made by Alexandre Vuillemin in 1843 extracted from his “Atlas universel de géographie ancienne et moderne à l'usage des pensionnats”.*Extract from a complete map of Northern Africa.
The Congress of Berlin by Anton von Werner.
Benedetto Cairoli, the Prime Minister who suffered the slap of Tunis and had to resign from his office.
Bréart, the general who led the first campaign.
Treaty of Bardo on 12 May 1881.
Prise de Sfax en 1881, Tunisie.
First page of the treaty of Bardo
First page of Conventions of La Marsa.
Notes
- ↑ as High Commissioner
References
- ↑ Ling, Dwight L. (August 1960). "The French Invasion of Tunisia, 1881". The Historian. 22 (4): 396–412. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1960.tb01666.x. JSTOR 24436566.
- ↑ Perkins, Kenneth J. (2004). A History of Modern Tunisia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81124-4.
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