Ras Jebel

Ras Jebel (رأس الجبل) Tinisa
Commune and town
Ras-El-Djebel
Nickname(s): Râs-El-Djebel
Country	Tunisia
Governorate	Bizerte Governorate
Population (2014)
• Total	58,241
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)

Ras Jebel is a town and commune in the Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia.

Ras Jebel also known as Rass El Djebell or Ras-El-Djebel is a town and archaeological site on the Mediterranean Coast of Tunisia. It is located at 37°12'56.6n and 10°7'31.1e on Cap Sidi.

During the Roman Empire the town, founded in the 3rd or 4th century, was a civitas of the Roman Province of Africa and was the seat of an ancient Christian Bishopric, which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. There is a set of ruins of the Roman era town of El Rhettas, 7km to the west. Ras El Djebel is set on a hill overlooking the sea and is at an altitude of 53m

Towards the second half of the 14th century, the Andalusians expelled from Spain would have settled on the site after having benefited from agricultural concessions. The inhabitants of the town carry Ghwalbia's gentile in reference to the Arab tribe of Banou Ghalib from the Spanish region of Zaragoza, where the majority of the first wave of Andalusians settled in Ras Jebel emerged. A road linking the port of Carthage to the region of Ras Jebel is called Qalat El Andalus (citadel of the Andalusians).

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