Béja

Béja (rear RTL باجة) is a city of the North-West of the Tunisia located at 105 kilometers of Tunis.

Chief town of the governorship of the same name, it constitutes a municipality of 56.677 inhabitants.

In the center of the one of the greenest areas of the country, with the edge of the mounts of Khroumirie and in one perforated which is an extension of the Vallée of the Medjerda, the area of Béja present of the varied landscapes: mountainous areas densément covered with trees, Flat S agricultural and river valleys.

It is the point of rallying of the Agriculteur S of his back-country which sell to with it the productions of their rich person exploitations (Vigne and Céréale S in particular) in his significant market, function which it occupies since the Roman epoch (its name is then Vaga). It has in addition largest the Sucre laughs at the country.

Because concealing in its center of strong potentialities (most of the population has less than 25 years), the area of Béja is the object of all the governmental attentions: the State invests there massively in the agricultural sector (Irrigation), of the infrastructures (extension of the communication network of Mobile telephony) or of teaching (inauguration in 2002 of the regional center of the National institute of office automation and microprocessing).

Lastly, not far from Béja exist archaeological vestiges dating from the Antiquité of which those of Dougga which is then one of the residences of the princes Numide S before being a prosperous establishment in the Roman province of Africa. It is also necessary to mention the Kasbah of Béja.

The culinary specialities of the area are the zlabiyya and the mekharek (Pâtisserie S).

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