
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bey of Tunis

Related Topics

Miss World

In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Tunis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tunis (تونس, Tūnis) is the capital of Tunisia, with a population of 699,700 in 2003.
		Tunis is located in north-eastern Tunisia on the Lake of Tunis, and is connected to the Mediterranean sea's Gulf of Tunis by a canal which terminates at the port of La Goulette / Halq al Wadi.
		Tunis became the capital of Tunisia under the Hafsid dynasty, and was a leading center of trade with Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tunis (840 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Tunisia
		Tunis, a seaport on the eastern coast, is the capital and largest city.
		At Tunis the average annual rainfall of 610 mm (24 in) occurs mostly between October and April.
		The financial crisis was made especially acute by the unrestrained personal extravagances of the beys and by the necessity for frequent, costly government reprisals against rebel uprisings.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761568505__1/Tunisia.html (4900 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tunis
		Tunis (Arabic: ØªÙÙØ³) is the capital of Tunisia.
		It is a mixture of modern city and ancient medina, with a population estimated in 2003 at 699,700 inhabitants.
		Tunis is located in north-eastern Tunisia on the Lake of Tunis, and is close to Mediterranean Gulf of Tunis by a canal which terminates at the port of Halq al Wadi.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tunis (1825 words)

	[No title]
		Les beys husseinites de Tunis ont progressivement conquis leur autonomie au regard d’Istanbul et présidé aux destinées d’un État, fait nouveau dans l’histoire de l’Ifriqiyya, territorialement délimité.
		Aussi le bey fut-il amené à accroître sa pression fiscale sur une population décimée par la peste.
		Tunis pouvait craindre le même sort que ses voisins et le bey se rendait compte qu’il n’avait pas les moyens de résister à une invasion française ou à l’intervention d’une escadre ottomane.
	www.chez.com /majed/tunisie/tunisie.html (15429 words)

	Tunis
		The Tunis is one of the oldest breeds indigenous to the United States.
		Tunis are also known for their disease resistance and their ability to remain productive on marginal land.
		Tunis wool is a lustrous 24 to 30 microns, long-stapled 4 to 6 inches that has found favor in many fiber and textile enterprises.
	www.kswpa.com /tunis.htm (541 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
		Resolved, That it be recommended to the President of the United States, to enter into a friendly negotiation with the Bey and government of Tunis, on the subject of the said article, so as to accommodate the provisions thereof to the existing treaties of the United States with other nations.
		It was on March 26, 1799, that the altered treaty was received from the Bey of Tunis by the representatives of the United States.
		In case the Government of Tunis shall have need of an American vessel for its service, the captain shall freight his vessel, and the freight shall be paid to him according to the agreement of the Government, without his being allowed to refuse.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1797n.htm (3052 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tunis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		From the middle of the twelfth century Tunis was ruled by the Almohade dynasty, which, weakened by its struggles with the Christian kingdoms of Spain, was driven out of Tunis in 1206 by a Berber, Abù Hafs, who founded the dynasty of the Hafsites that ruled until 1574.
		Mulei Hassan was restored to power in Tunis as a Spanish vassal, but was obliged to promise to suppress Christian slavery in his domain, to grant religious liberty, and to close his ports to the pirates.
		For Tunis it was a brilliant period in which enormous treasures accumulated in the country, and during which the supremacy of the Porte was almost nominal.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15088a.htm (2288 words)

	Eugene Staley. War and the Private Investor. 1935. Chapter 12. The Conquest of Tunis.
		ON MAY 12, 1881, the Bey of Tunis yielded to the overpowering force of a French military expedition and at his Bardo Palace signed a treaty which made Tunis a protectorate of France.
		Roustan persuaded the Bey's government to annul the concession, despite the protests of Sir Richard Wood, and on May 6, 1876, it was reissued to the Société de Construction des Batignolles.(13) This company transferred its rights to a subsidiary, the Compagnie de Bône-Guelma, a hitherto unimportant organization interested in Algerian railways.
		Meanwhile a new Italian consul, Signor Maccio, had arrived in Tunis with a display of military pomp and circumstance (dutifully and jealously reported to Paris by Roustan), which gave warning that henceforth French advances would be hotly contested.(33) The pressure of rival intrigue upon the unfortunate Bey redoubled.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/investor/Staley12.html (5142 words)

	Tunisia - Historical Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Tunis: "Rouge, avec croissant et étoile dans un cercle blanc." In other words, the current national flag of Tunisia.
		Flaggenbuch (1939) shows this flag as a rectangular flag of nine stripes, the middle one being of double width and green while others are of equal width and alternating yellow and red, i.e.
		The Bey's standard shown in National Geographic (1917) is somewhat different from the Flaggenbuch (1939) version, with a long description and explanation.
	www.fotw.us /flags/tn-hist.html (1298 words)

	Tunis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The city is located on the Lake Tunis and is connected to the Gulf Tunis an arm of the Mediterranean Sea by a canal terminating at the of Halq al Wadi.
		After 1591 the Turkish governors (Beys) were virtually independent and the city as a center of piracy and trade.
		Only the Bey of Tunis refused comply with the result that Blake's 15 attacked the Bey's arsenal at Porto Farina el Melh) destroying 9 Algerian ships and shore batteries the first time in naval that shore batteries had been taken out landing men ashore.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tunis (651 words)

	The Avalon Project : The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
		The negotiations for the revision of various articles of the earlier treaty with Tunis (Document 21) were carried on on behalf of the United States by Dr. Samuel D. Heap, then Charge d'Affaires and Acting Consul at Tunis.
		Whereas certain alterations in the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of August 1797, between the United-States and the Bashaw Bey of Tunis, were agreed upon and concluded between His Highness Sidi Mahmoud, the Bey, and it.
		The alterations of the earlier treaty with Tunis (Document 21) which were made by this convention, were limited to Articles 6, 11, 12, and 14.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1824n.htm (2003 words)

	[No title]
		But the Bey was not to be talked over; he refused to be led away from the main question,--"Where are the money, the regalia, the naval stores?" He could take but one view of the case: he had been trifled with; the Prince of America was not in earnest.
		The Bey refused to give up the powder: fifteen barrels of powder, he said, might get him a prize worth a hundred thousand dollars; but salutes were not to be fired, unless demanded by the Consul on the part of the United States.
		Later, when the Bey of Tunis showed some inclination to surrender Hamet to his brother, the Consuls furnished him with the means of escape to Malta.
	www.gutenberg.net /dirs/1/1/4/6/11465/11465-8.txt (20391 words)

	Tunisia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Husainid dynasty of Tunis is of Cretan origin, though it is difficult to establish if their ethnic origins are Greek or Turkish.
		He closed the slave market in Tunis in August 1841, declared anyone born in his domains to be free in the following year, and freed all remaining slaves in 1846.
		The Bey's financial administration proved unequal to the task of meeting the increased levels of expenditure demanded by his extensive building and modernization programmes.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Tunisia/tunisia.htm (2003 words)

	Historic Latta Plantation - Tunis Sheep
		The Tunis is one of the oldest of the distinct sheep breeds, dating back over 3,000 years.
		The Tunis is sometimes referred to as the "fat-tailed" or "broad-tailed" sheep.
		The Tunis was brought to this country was in 1799 as a gift from the Bey of Tunis, the ruler of Tunisia, Africa, to Judge Richard Peters of Pennsylvania.
	www.lattaplantation.org /animals/tunis_sheep.shtml (194 words)

	meet3
		One formally guaranteed full security for all the Bey’s subjects, without distinction of race, nationality or religion - gave equality under the law to non-Muslims; this security was to extend to the person, the property and the dignity of his subjects.
		The bey remained in theory an absolute monarch, 2 ministers were still appointed, and the framework of the old government machinery was preserved.
		Albert Memmi (1920) was born in the Jewish quarters of Tunis.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~shaked/Tunisia/meet3.html (9903 words)

	Tunis, Tunisia: Government quarters
		The modern government quarters are easy to find: you just pass the Zitouna mosque, and walk up the streets for about 100 metres, and turn right.
		His office is in the Dar al Bay, House of the Bey, which was used as a royal guest house.
		This article, with its images, its photos, its music, may not be reproduced or stored in any form, without the consent of the publishers.
	www.lexicorient.com /tunisia/tunis05.htm (184 words)

	Cahiers de la Méditerranée \| LA REGENCE DE TUNIS ET L'ESCLAVAGE EN MEDITERRANEE A LA FIN DU XVIIIème SIECLE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Il remet également au Bey une déclaration certifiant que son Excellence le Bey lui a concédé la liberté ainsi qu'à dix-huit autres personnes et qu'il lui a rendu les joyaux de l'Ordre Royal de San Gennaro par considération pour la Sublime Porte et pour le Capitaine Pacha.
		Aussitôt, le Bey fait appeler l'envoyé et, lui disant qu'il a entendu ses conseils, lui fait part de la teneur de la déclaration faite par le Prince.
		Le Bey rétorque que c'est avec la République de Venise qu'il avait un Traité de Paix, mais que, puisque celle-ci n'existe plus, il n'avait aucune raison d'empêcher ses corsaires de croiser dans le golfe de Venise et de s'emparer de navires vénitiens.
	revel.unice.fr /cmedi/document.html?id=43 (7209 words)

	Eighth Crusade, 1270 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Louis IX of France, in an attempt to restore the situation, decided to go back on crusade after nearly twenty years, but mislead by the idea that the Bey of Tunis could be converted to Christianity, he decided to land first in Tunisia, then march across Egypt to the Holy Land.
		However, once he arrived in Tunisia, it was clear that this was not the case, and he had to besiege Tunis.
		Louis then died in an epidemic, to be replaced by his brother Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily, and a reluctant crusader, who negotiated terms with the Bey, who paid tribute to him and France, after which the crusade ended.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/wars_crusade8th.html (179 words)

	Bey de Tunis - Free-Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Le Bey de Tunis est à l'origine un simple préfet de l'Empire ottoman (voir bey (titre)).
		Cependant, à partir du XVIIIe siècle (dynastie des Husseinites), les beys de Tunis acquièrent une autonomie de fait, presque une indépendance vis-à-vis de leur suzerain le sultan d'Istanbul.
		Les couleurs du bey de Tunis étaient le rouge et le vert.
	fr.free-definition.com /Bey_de_Tunis.html (161 words)

	Free Online Library - Search Results - Classic books by famous authors online
		We returned to Constantinople, and the following year, seventy-three, it became known that Don John had seized Tunis and taken the kingdom from the Turks, and placed Muley Hamet in possession, putting an end to the hopes which Muley Hamida, the cruelest and bravest Moor in the world, entertained of returning to reign there.
		We were then passing between Sicily and the coast of Tunis.
		Richardson, Barth, and Overweg, jealously anxious to push their investigations farther, arrived at Tunis and Tripoli, like their predecessors, and got as far as Mourzouk, the capital of Fezzan.
	www.thefreelibrary.com /bs.asp?ss=text&s=Tunis (195 words)

	Tunis, la belle au bey dormant
		On se repasse en famille l'émission télévisée de Frédéric Mitterrand, Tunis chante et danse, prémonitoire dès 1992.
		Tunis, la cité au jasmin nocturne, a réveillé ses beys dormants.
		En allant voir à La Mohamedia, près de Tunis, les ruines colossales mais décevantes du "Versailles nord-africain", que le bey Ahmed Ier (1837-1855) y édifia, nous tombons sur les bien plus gratifiants vestiges, en cours de réhabilitation, de l'antique Adyn phénicienne, l'Uthina romaine, d'où son toponyme arabe d'Oudna.
	www.harissa.com /D_forum/Culture_Tune/tunislabelle.htm (971 words)

	Tunisia - Historical Flags
		I recalled the beylical standard was mentioned in an article on Tunisian flags in The Flag Bulletin, no. 195, Sep.-Oct. 2000, pp.
		(32) Henri Hugon, "Les Emblèmes des beys de Tunis" (Paris: Leroux, 1913), p.
		The Tunis flag is a white crescent pointing upwards on an red field.
	fotw.fivestarflags.com /tn-hist.html (1298 words)

	Tunisia (History) formally became a French protectorate, the country was a monarchy, with the Bey of Tunis as Head of ...
		Tunisia (History) formally became a French protectorate, the country was a monarchy, with the Bey of Tunis as Head of State
		Until 1883, when Tunisia formally became a French protectorate, the country was a semi-independent monarchy, with the Bey of Tunis as Head of State.
		Also in September a majority of members of the Arab League resolved to move the League´s headquarters from Tunis (where it had heen ´temporarily´ established in 1979) to its original site in Cairo.
	www.arab.de /arabinfo/tunishis.htm (545 words)

	Tunis Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Looking For tunis - Find tunis and more at Lycos Search.
		Find tunis - Your relevant result is a click away!
		However, the former Sultan, Mulai-Hassan, fled to the court of Charles the 5th.
	www.artquilt.com /encyclopedia/Tunis (612 words)

	bey - meaning and definition of the word. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		bey - meaning and definition of the word.
		You can double click on any word to find it's meaning when you see the help cursor.
		[n.] A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
	dictionary.blintz.com /dictionary/bey (62 words)

	Lingua Franca -- Rossetti
		The Jewish population of Tunis was split between merchants from Livorno and local craftsmen, who yearned for a Tuscan passport; but Article 2 of the treaty negotiated by Ferdinand III with Tunis on 11 October 1822 read:
		Yusùf Pasha, who had loosened for a while the ties with Constantinople (just as the Bey of Tunis, or Muhammad Ali in Egypt) was surrounded by southern Italians who enriched his vocabulary; the archives of the Sardinian consulate at Tripoli bore evidence of this in quoting, often in direct speech, his talking.
		In 1859 the trade convention between the Bey of Tunis and the consul general of Austria, Giovanni Gasparo Merlato, had been written in Italian; that is no wonder, since in the Austrian Empire as a federal entity, the official language for the Navy and most of the trade was Italian.
	www.uwm.edu /~corre/franca/edition3/lingua5.html (4073 words)

	Ali I. al-Husain Tunesien Tunis Husainiden Bey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Er errichtete 1752 die Medersa El-Bachia, in deren Inneren heute seine Grabstätte liegt.
		1756 wurde Ali I. al-Husain von den Söhnen seines Vorgängers gestürzt, als diese mit algerischer Hilfe Tunis eroberten.
		Neuer Bey von Tunis wurde Muhammad I. al-Husain (1756-1759).
	www.powerwissen.com /enXrf%7C%7CSL%7C%7C2u7FcpDMotf0bq2A%3D%3D_Ali_I._al-Husain.html (161 words)

	TUNIS LAMB - 20 LBS. & LAMB
		The Tunis is one of the oldest varieties of sheep indigenous to the United States.
		The earliest documented importation of the variety occurred in 1799, a gift to the U.S. from the ruler of Tunisia, his highness the Bey of Tunis.
		The gift was entrusted to the care of Judge Richard Peters of Pennsylvania who became an outspoken advocate of the breed.
	info.product-finder.net /hfusa/Tunis-Lamb---20-Lbs-.html (229 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)