El Hamma

El Hamma (Arabic الحامة, DMG al - Hama ), and El Hamma de l' Arad, is an oasis town in southern Tunisia. It is located in the province of Gabes and has about 35,000 inhabitants. The village name comes from Hamma for Bad and results from natural artesian source outlets in their area.

Location and population

The urban village was formed from the original five individual village and garden-like individual settlements. These are Bechima (1870 invested ), Bou Attouche, Debdaba, El Ksar and Sembat.

The city lies at the foot of the eastern ridge of Djebel Tebaga in the Arad - level, which forms the southern boundary of the geological subsidence area Chott el Fedjadj.

Your modern settlement structure is situated on both sides of the main road leading through the village. The green areas of the actual oasis extends into the northern parts of the city.

The majority of the residents is dominated urban. Originally settled here nomads of the tribe of Beni Zid. Many residents of the city feel they belong to this group. In the city environment, extensive facilities are date palms, which provide a source of income for part of the population.

Water sources

The water sources located this oasis group to basically form the largest groundwater reservoir between the Chott el Fedjadj and the city of Gabes. Their occurrence has been known since Roman times, and therefore the place was called Aquae Tacapitanae.

The water enters in the form of artesian hot springs by itself and has a temperature of 45 ° C. They are low in sulfur.

Traffic

The city is located on the Tunisian regional road P16 until after Tamerza leads to the Algerian border from the port of Gabes into the western interior.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mohamed Ali El Hammi, founder of the Tunisian syndicalism
• Mohamed Daghbaji, politicians of the national movement
• Rachid al - Ghannouchi, Islamist politicians with orientation