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

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