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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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1580;ربة) is with its 514 km² the largest island off North Africa, located in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia.
The Governorate of Gabes played host, on Tuesday, to activities of the Special Day held as part of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's campaign for presidency.
In the northern part of the Gabes Gulf, an area called "November Seven", rich in oil and gas and long disputed by Libya and Tunisia, is being exploited by a joint Libyan-Tunisian oil company as part of a territorial settlement reached in late 1990.
 
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