Tinja, Tunisia

Coordinates: 37°10′N 9°46′E / 37.167°N 9.767°E / 37.167; 9.767
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This article is about the town in Bizerte Governorate. For the town in Sfax Governorate, see Thyna.

Tinja
(تينجة)
Thimida
Commune and town
UTC+1 (CET
)

Tinja or Tindja (تينجة) is a town and commune (municipality) in the

Thimida, a former bishopric which remains a Latin Catholic titular see
.

Location and description

Tindja is located 37° 09′ 37″n, 9°45′51″e and the mayor is Mohamed Ridha Mehedhbi.

freshwater lake and the saltwater lagoon. Indeed, the lock open during the winter allows the exchanges between the two environments, in particular to maintain a sufficient degree of salinity of the waters of the lake to avoid the atrophy of the fauna and the flora. Fisheries are exploited at the canal
level.

As of 2004 it had a population of 17,454.[2]

Attached administratively to the Bizerte Governorate, it is the seat of a delegation and a municipality with 21,139 inhabitants in 2014.[3]

A major industrial area is established and should benefit from the rehabilitation of the road linking Tinja to Menzel Bourguiba and then joining the Tunis-Bizerte (A4) motorway.

The area is a UNESCO Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. [4]

History

Tindja was the capital of

throne of Numidia
.

Under Roman rule there was a town at Tinja. The ruins of Henchir-Tindja at Tinja have been identified with the

Catholic diocese[6]

A second

Roman settlement called Gunela
was located across the river, in what is today the southern suburbs of Tindja.

In the 12th century

al Idrissi reports the city caught an abundance of fish from the lake.[7]
In the 18th century
Dureau de la Malle reported that the townspeople take fish eggs of mullet. In 1896 France established a Naval base nearby resulting in European immigration. Within 20 years the population was three-quarters European.[8]

Titular see

titular bishopric
under the names Thimida (Latin) / Timida (Curiate Italian) / Thimiden(sis) (Latin adjective). It has had the following incumbents, so far of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank :

See also

References

  1. ^ Décret du 27 novembre 2012 modifiant le décret du 2 juin 2011 portant nomination de délégations spéciales dans certaines communes du territoire de la République tunisienne, Journal officiel de la République tunisienne, n°95, 30 novembre 2012, p. 3062-3063.
  2. ^ (in French) Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Recensement de 2014 (Institut national de la statistique) Archived 28 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Tindja, City history.
  5. ^ Thimida at imperium.ahlfeldt.
  6. ^ Francois Decret, Early Christianity in North Africa (James Clarke & Co, 25 December 2014) p85.
  7. ^ Tindja, City history.
  8. ^ Tindja, City history.
  9. ^ Titular Episcopal See of Thisiduo at GCatholic.

37°10′N 9°46′E / 37.167°N 9.767°E / 37.167; 9.767

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