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samedi 16 août 2014

Islands Jalth

Islands Jalth 
Internationally protected area because it was the only region that contains the only species of seal in the Mediterranean 
Jalthha the largest island in the archipelago Jalth which consists of a total of six small islands located off the northern coast of Tunisia, just 81 km from the city of Bizerte, 64 kilometers east of the city of Tabarka
Geography 
The area of ​​the island Jalth 752.3 hectares of the total 808 hectares is the area of ​​the archipelago, and has a length of 5.3 km and a width exceeding 3 km. The maximum height to the 391 meters above sea level. Despite the modest area of ​​steep slopes and highlands Topgraveh overwhelm the island, making travel difficult. 
* In terms of climate, she can Jalth Island in north-westerly winds known to sailors as "whey". The temperatures are moderate as the maximum rates of 26 ° in August / August and 12 ° in the January / January. As of rainfall, annually ranges between 500 and 600 mm, may rise more than that as it recorded during the year 1951-1952: 750 mm, may also fall to a total of 300 mm of rain that fell in 1954-1955. 
* Jalth Island nature reserve, where fishing is forbidden around in a circle and a half kilometers deep 
* Through what was discovered by the relics of the island seems to be Jalth been inhabited in antiquity. In the modern era has been inhabited since the nineteenth century Italians got later on French nationality has numbered about two hundred people had gathered in the village and one by about forty houses and a church and a school for them. But they journeyed from the island after the Tunisian government's decision to nationalize the territory of centenarians in 1964. 
* In the fifties of the twentieth century exiled leader Habib Bourguiba to the island where Jalth has spent two years, from 21 May / May 1952 to 20 May / May 1954, where he wrote many letters addressed to the Patriots, was published later. 
Since abandoned by the Italians towards France, the island remained almost empty Jalth of the population, and there are currently only a small number of agents. I thought the Tunisian state in the early nineties in the reconstruction, it has Regional Commissary for Agricultural Development Bizerte in 1992 to study, among other things proposed by the construction of the port for fishing on the island, and to the creation of peasant Pegrash vines and fruit trees and cultivation of grain, vegetables and silo aim of breeding cattle from goats and sheep, as well as reforestation and water conservation 
Jalatono Jalth Minor is one of the small islands near the Tunisian island of Jalth located off the northern coast and keep track of administrative mandate of Bizerte 
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