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

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 his mother's family from Italy (his mother was a former Italian captive) and installed her in the esplanade quarter which became Rahbat El Allouj, allouj (in the singular alij), describing white foreigners and often Christian slaves.

References

1. Les portes

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Bab El Allouj at Wikimedia Commons

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