Bab El Allouj

Bab El Allouj (Arabic: باب العلوج‎) is one of the gates of the medina of Tunis.

View of Bab El Allouj in 1900

Built under the Hafsid sultan Abū lshâq Ibrâhîm al-Mustansir (1349–1369), it was named Bab er-Rehiba or "the small esplanade gate". In 1435, it took the name of Bab El Allouj, when Sultan Abu Amr Uthman brought her mother's family from Italy (her mother was a former Italian captive) and installed her in the esplanade quarter Which becomes Rahbat El Allouj, allouj (in the singular alij), describing white foreigners and often Christian slaves.[1]

References
  1. http://www.commune-tunis.gov.tn/publish/content/article.asp?ID=192

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