Where is Mahdia Located? What Country is Mahdia in? Mahdia Map

Where is Mahdia Located?

The governor’s town of Mahdia is protected on a small, rocky peninsula (Cape Africa) and is the economic center of the southern Sahel. The governorate of Mahdia has an area of 2966 square miles. The Gouvenorat Mahdia counts 380 000 inhabitants and around 46 000 people live in the city itself. Due to its prominent geographical location, Mahdia has always had a great strategic importance. The Phoenicians and the Romans took the Peninsula as one of their settlement areas. Julius Caesar defeated the followers of Pompeius at Thapsus (…near the village of Bekalta) in North Africa – then a day trip away from Mahdia.

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History

The Fatimids under the Caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi made them their capital in the 9th century and surrounded them with a city wall that was in places over ten meters thick. The town’s access to land was the Skiffa El Kahla gate, which still exists today, which has a passage of about 40 metres and was considered impregnable by various safeguards against enemy raids. Already in 1087, Mahdia was attacked by ships from Genoa and Pisa. 12. In the 19th century, a notorious pirate’s nest was built here, and Mahdia was occupied by the Normans who prepared their Expansion into North Africa from Sicily. On June 1, 1390, a fleet of ships set off from Genoa with the aim of attacking Mahdia.

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