Maktar
Maktar or Makthar, also known by other names during antiquity, is a town and archaeological site in Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. Maktar was founded by the Berber Numidians as a defense post against Carthaginian expansion.
- Town with 12,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 924 metres (3,031 feet)
- …is also known as “Makhtar”
- Description: Tunisian town
- Address: Makthar
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Latitude
35.8559° or 35° 51′ 21″ north
Longitude
9.20575° or 9° 12′ 21″ east
Open location code
8F7FV644+97
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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”
- Swahili: “Maktar”
- Turkish: “Mukasir”
- Ukrainian: “Максар”
- Welsh: “Maktar”
- Welsh: “Makthar”
- Zulu: “Maktar”
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