Kroumirie
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The Kroumirie (also spelled Khroumirie)[a] is a mountainous region located in northwestern Tunisia and northeastern Algeria.[1] The region is named after its people, the Khumayr (locally Khmīr).[b][2][3]
The Kroumirie is an eastern extension of the
zean oak. Other species include wild olive and the undergrowth comprises mostly ferns. Owing to a relatively high rainfall it is the most well watered region in Tunisia (40 to 60 in [1,000 to 1,500 mm] a year). Snowfall is common at higher elevations.[2]
In the
Thabraca (Tabarka). The latter was the port from which the products of the mountains—lumber, wild animals, oil, wheat and minerals—were exported. The Kroumirie is completely unmentioned in written sources from the Middle Ages. The Khumayr had friendly commercial relations with the Genoese of Tabarka after 1540. Only in more modern times did it earn a reputation as a place of resistance against the forces of governments both Tunisian and foreign.[2]
Notes
- Arabic: جبال خمير, Jabal Khumayr, locally Djebel Khmīr
- ^ French Khoumirs or Kroumirs
References
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "Kroumirie Mountains (Tunisia and Algeria) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ^ ISBN 978-90-04-07819-2.
- ^ . Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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