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Habib Bourguiba
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Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957) then as the first president of Tunisia (1957–1987). Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from France, ending the 75-year-old protectorate and earning the title of "Supreme Combatant".
Taïeb Mhiri
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Taïeb Mhiri was a Tunisian politician.
Farhat Hached
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Farhat Hached was a Tunisian labor unionist and activist who was assassinated by La Main Rouge, a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence. He was one of the leaders of the pro-independence Tunisian national movement, along with Habib Bourguiba and Salah ben Youssef. His assassination is attributed to La Main Rouge, an armed organisation that favoured a French presence in Tunisia. More recently, on 18 December 2009, it was confirmed to the Al Jazeera news organisation, by a man called Antoine Méléro, who claimed to be a former Main Rouge member, that the Main Rouge had been a military wing of the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage or SDECE.
الهادي شاكر
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الهادي شاكر ولد عام 1908 بمدينة صفاقس بالجنوب التونسي واغتيل في 13 سبتمبر /أيلول 1953 بمدينة نابل.
Habib Bourguiba
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Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian lawyer, nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957) then as the first president of Tunisia (1957–1987). Prior to his presidency, he led the nation to independence from France, ending the 75-year-old protectorate and earning the title of "Supreme Combatant".
Habib Thameur
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Habib Thameur, né le 4 avril 1909 à Tunis et mort le 22 décembre 1949 à Lahore, est un homme politique et médecin tunisien.
علي البلهوان
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علي البلهوان ولد في 13 أفريل/نيسان 1909 بتونس العاصمة. وتوفي بها في 10 مايو/أيار 1958. أحد زعماء الحركة الوطنية التونسية.
Hédi Amara Nouira
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Hédi Amara Nouira was a Tunisian politician. He served as the 2nd Prime Minister of Tunisia between 1970 and 1980.
Mehmed Ali Pasha
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Mehmed Ali Pasha may refer to:Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769–1849), considered the founder of modern Egypt
Çerkes Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman and grand vizier
Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha (1815–1871), Ottoman statesman and grand vizier
Mehmed Ali Pasha (marshal) (1827–1878), Prussian-born Ottoman soldier
Ibn Khaldun
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Ibn Khaldun was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.
Habib Thameur
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Habib Thameur, né le 4 avril 1909 à Tunis et mort le 22 décembre 1949 à Lahore, est un homme politique et médecin tunisien.
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi
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Aboul-Qacem Echebbi was a Tunisian poet. He is probably best known for writing the final two verses of the current National Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima, which was originally written by the Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.
Habib Bougatfa
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Habib Bougatfa, de son nom complet Mohamed Habib Bougatfa, né en 1906 et décédé le 5 mai 1943, est un militant tunisien qui s'est illustré par son rôle dans le mouvement national dans les années 1930 et 1940, plus particulièrement dans les évènements de Bizerte en 1938 et au sein du mouvement moncéfiste.
Avicenna
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Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. He is often described as the father of early modern medicine. His philosophy was of the Muslim Peripatetic school derived from Aristotelianism.
Farhat Hached
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Farhat Hached was a Tunisian labor unionist and activist who was assassinated by La Main Rouge, a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence. He was one of the leaders of the pro-independence Tunisian national movement, along with Habib Bourguiba and Salah ben Youssef. His assassination is attributed to La Main Rouge, an armed organisation that favoured a French presence in Tunisia. More recently, on 18 December 2009, it was confirmed to the Al Jazeera news organisation, by a man called Antoine Méléro, who claimed to be a former Main Rouge member, that the Main Rouge had been a military wing of the French Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage or SDECE.
Yasser Arafat
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Yasser Arafat, also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.
Haj Ali Soua
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Haj Ali Soua, was born in Ksar Hellal in 1870 and died in 1953, is a Tunisian trader and philanthropist.
Tahar Sfar
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Tahar Sfar was a Tunisian lawyer and politician.
Mohammed V of Morocco
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Mohammed al-Khamis bin Yusef bin Hassan al-Alawi, better known simply Mohammed V, was the last Sultan of Morocco from 1927 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1957, and first King of Morocco from 1957 to 1961. A member of the 'Alawi dynasty, he played an instrumental role in securing the independence of Morocco from France and Spain.
Ali Bach Hamba
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Ali Bach Hamba was a Tunisian lawyer, journalist and politician. He co-founded the Young Tunisians with Béchir Sfar in 1907.
Jugurtha
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Jugurtha or Jugurthen was a king of Numidia. When the Numidian king Micipsa, who had adopted Jugurtha, died in 118 BC, Jugurtha and his two adoptive brothers, Hiempsal and Adherbal, succeeded him. Jugurtha arranged to have Hiempsal killed and, after a civil war, defeated and killed Adherbal in 112 BC.
Hannibal
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Hannibal was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
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