Tunisia
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This north African nation is officially called the Tunisian Republic (الجمهورية التونسية). Like its neighbor Algeria, Tunisia was originally inhabited by Berber tribes, but was settled by Phoenicians around the 10th century BCE. Settlers from Tyre (in modern day Lebanon) founded the city of Carthage in the 9th century, which would becoming the center of the Carthaginian Empire and the dominant culture of the region from the 7th to the 2nd centuries BCE.