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ENFIDAVILLE [Dar-el-Bey]

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 403 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENFIDAVILLE [See also:Dar-el-See also:Bey] , a See also:town of See also:Tunisia, on the railway between See also:Tunis and See also:Susa, 30 M. N.E. of the last-named See also:place and 5 M. inland from the Gulf of Hammamet. Enfidaville is the See also:chief See also:settlement on the Enfida See also:estate, a See also:property of over 300,000 acres in the See also:Sahel See also:district of Tunisia, forming a rectangle between the towns of Hammamet, Susa, See also:Kairawan and Zaghwan. On this estate, devoted to the cultivation of cereals, See also:olives, vines and to pasturage, are colonies of Europeans and natives. At Enfidaville, where was, as its native name indicates, a See also:palace of the beys of Tunis, there is a large See also:horse-breeding See also:establishment and a much-frequented weekly See also:market. About 5 M. N. of Enfidaville is Henshir Fraga (anc. Uppenna), where are ruins of a large fortress and of a See also:church in which were found mosaics with epitaphs of various bishops and martyrs. The Enfida estate was granted by the bey Mahommed-es-Sadok to his chief See also:minister See also:Khaireddin See also:Pasha (q.v.) in return for the See also:confirmation by the See also:sultan of See also:Turkey in 1871, through the instrumentality of the pasha, of the right of See also:succession to the beylik of members of Es-Sadok's See also:family. When, some years later, Khaireddin See also:left Tunisia for See also:Constantinople he sold the estate to a See also:Marseilles See also:company, which resold it to the Societe Franco-africaine.

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