History and Archeology Mahdia

Mahdia is one of the city with first Tunisian fishing ports, has the characteristics of being superbly located at the tip of Cape Africa

Archaeological evidence in Mahdia relate more to the Punic era and medieval and modern.

From the Punic era, Mahdia kept a cotton Carthaginian (a kind of port founded following the work of men’s hand), which was subsequently reemployed in the Fatimid period.

Mahdia is no lack of remains of medieval view the passage of many of the first dynasty in Islamic existence in Tunisia, shows that time, the palace of Al-Qaim, a small palace complex still under excavation, el Skiffa -Kahla, a sort of porch, today as yesterday, allows access to the Fatimid city, the Great Mosque, built by Obeid Allah al-Mahdi in the early 10th century and said bordj bordj Erras or el-bordj el-Kebir, it is raised a fortress high on the highest side of the peninsula. This building built in the early 16th century was enlarged by the Turks.

Mahdia also has a beautiful museum of archaeological pieces are exhibited beautiful (mosaic, ceramic material of antiquity and the Islamic period) of hoards of Byzantine, maggots found in the region;

In 1908, 1913 and 1948 underwater excavations, which made off of the city, fought a large collection of marbles and bronzes of Greek origin found in a shipwreck in the late first century BC. BC, subject to any order made by a rich man from Italy or Africa. The archaeological material is now exposed to the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

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