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Maktar

Maktar or Makthar, also known by other names during antiquity, is a town and archaeological site in , . Maktar was founded by the Berber Numidians as a defense post against Carthaginian expansion.
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  • Type: Town with 12,900 residents
  • Description: Tunisian town
  • Also known as: “Makhtar”
  • Address: Makthar

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mactaris.

Archaeological site
Photo: Pradigue, CC BY 3.0.
The Makthar archaeological site, the remains of ancient , is an archaeological site in Makthar, west-central , a town on the northern edge of the Tunisian Ridge.

Maktar

Latitude
35.8559° or 35° 51′ 21″ north
Longitude
9.20575° or 9° 12′ 21″ east
Population
12,900
Elevation
924 metres (3,031 feet)
Open location code
8F7FV644+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1088455110
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2469341
Wiki­data ID
Q1204373
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Maktar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مكثر”
  • Bulgarian: “Мактар”
  • Catalan: “Maktar”
  • Catalan: “Makthar”
  • Cebuano: “Maktar”
  • Dutch: “Maktar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكثر”
  • French: “Makthar”
  • German: “Makthar”
  • Hausa: “Maktar”
  • Hebrew: “מכתר”
  • Hungarian: “Maktar”
  • Indonesian: “Maktar”
  • Italian: “Mactaris”
  • Italian: “Maktar”
  • Korean: “마크타르”
  • Persian: “مکثر”
  • Polish: “Mactaris”
  • Polish: “Maksar”
  • Polish: “Maktar”
  • Polish: “Makthar”
  • Polish: “Maktthar”
  • Portuguese: “Maktar”
  • Portuguese: “Makthar”
  • Romanian: “Makthar”
  • Russian: “Мактар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maktar”
  • Turkish: “Mukasir”
  • Ukrainian: “Максар”
  • Welsh: “Maktar”
  • Welsh: “Makthar”
  • Zulu: “Maktar”

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Highlights include Amphitheatre of Mactaris and Musée de Maktaris.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maktar”. Photo: Pradigue, CC BY 3.0.