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Gabès

Port in east Tunisia; population (2004) 116,300. Fertilizers and dates are exported. The town's main industry is chemicals (phosphoric and sulphuric acid) since the construction of a chemical complex here in the early 1970s. The town stands on the site of the Roman town of Tacapae.



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was a system of fortifications built by the French between the towns of Medenine and Gabès in southern Tunisia, prior to World War II.
 
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