Tunis, capital of Tunisia today, which Ibn Battuta passed on his way from the Maghreb to the Mashriq; Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in 82 AH as a naval base.
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Tunis, capital of Tunisia today, which Ibn Battuta passed on his way from the Maghreb to the Mashriq. The source says Hassan ibn al-Nu'man founded it in 82 AH as a naval base to bar repeated Byzantine attacks on Carthage, digging a canal joining it to the sea; and that Abd al-Malik sent it two thousand skilled Copts from Egypt to establish the shipbuilding craft.
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