Tunis (disambiguation)

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Tunis is the capital of Tunisia, and in several languages also the name for the country.

Tunis may also refer to:

Places:

• Tunis Governorate, a governorate (province) of Tunisia
• Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia
• Lake of Tunis, a natural lagoon between the city of Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis
• Tunis Eyalet, an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire
• 6362 Tunis, an asteroid

People:

• Tunis Campbell (1812-1891), African American politician
• Tunis Craven (1813-1864), U.S. Navy officer
• John R. Tunis (1889-1975), American sports journalist and novelist
• Staffan Tunis (born 1982), Finnish ski-orienteering competitor

Other uses:

• Battle of Tunis (255 BC), a Carthaginian victory over the Romans in the First Punic War
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
• Tunis University, Tunisia
• TUNIS (Toronto University System), a UNIX-like operating system developed at the University of Toronto
• Tunis Grand Prix, an auto race held in the 1920s and 1930s in Tunis, Tunisia
• Tunis Open, a tennis tournament
• Tunis (sheep), a sheep breed