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Tunisia
 
 
Republic in northwestern Africa, bordered by Algeria to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east, and Libya to the southeast.  1
‡ In the sixth century B.C., Tunisia became the center of power for the city of Carthage.  2
‡ Tunisia was a French protectorate from 1881 to 1956, when it achieved independence.  3
 
 
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