Mahdia
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- Type: City with 79,500 residents
- Description: place in Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia
- Also known as: “Africa”, “Al Mahdīyah”, “al-Mahdiyya”, “Mahedia”, “Mehdia”, and “Zella”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mahdia Museum and Great Mosque.
Mahdia Museum
Museum
The Mahdia Museum is a museum in Tunisia specialising in Tunisian archaeology and heritage. It is located in the city of Mahdia. The museum collections includes Punic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic elements and concentrates on popular traditions of central Tunisia.
Great Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Citizen59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Mahdiya is a mosque in Mahdia, Tunisia. Located on the southern side of the peninsula on which the old city is located, construction of the mosque was initiated in 916, when the city was founded by the Fatimid caliph Abdallah al-Mahdi, to serve as the new city's main mosque.
Gare Mahdia
Railway station
Photo: Phil Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gare Mahdia is a railway station in Mahdia, Tunisia, forming the southern terminus of the electrified, metre-gauge Sahel Metro line. It is operated by the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens.
Mahdia
- Categories: municipality of Tunisia, imada, and locality
- Location: Mahdia, Mahdia Governorate, Northern Tunisia, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.5036° or 35° 30′ 13″ northLongitude
11.0682° or 11° 4′ 6″ eastPopulation
79,500Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
TN MADOpen location code
8F7HG339+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 287621836OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Mahdia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المهدية”
- Arabic: “المهدية”
- Asturian: “Mahdía”
- Bashkir: “Мәхдиә”
- Basque: “Mahdia”
- Belarusian: “Махдзія (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Махдзія (места)”
- Belarusian: “Махдзія (Туніс)”
- Belarusian: “Махдзія”
- Bengali: “মাদিয়া”
- Catalan: “Mahdia”
- Cebuano: “Mahdia (kapital sa lalawigan sa Tunisia)”
- Cebuano: “Mahdia”
- Chinese: “馬地亞”
- Chinese: “馬赫迪耶”
- Chinese: “马赫迪耶”
- Czech: “Mahdia”
- Danish: “Mahdia”
- Dutch: “Mahdia”
- Esperanto: “Mahdia”
- Finnish: “Mahdia”
- French: “Madhia”
- French: “Madhya”
- French: “Mahdia”
- Galician: “Mahdia”
- German: “Al-Mahdiya”
- German: “Al-Mahdīyah”
- German: “Mahdia”
- Greek: “Αλ Μαντίγια”
- Greek: “Αλ-Μαχντίγια”
- Greek: “Μαχντία”
- Gujarati: “મહદિયા”
- Hebrew: “אל-מהדיה”
- Hebrew: “מהדיה”
- Hindi: “मेहदिया”
- Hungarian: “Mahdia”
- Indonesian: “Mahdia”
- Italian: “Al-Mahdiya”
- Italian: “Al-Mahdiyya”
- Italian: “Mahdia”
- Japanese: “マーディア”
- Kannada: “ಮಹ್ಡಿಯಾ”
- Korean: “마디아”
- Korean: “마흐디아”
- Latvian: “Mahdija”
- Lithuanian: “Mahdija”
- Macedonian: “Махдија”
- Malay: “Mahdia”
- Maltese: “Mahdia”
- Marathi: “महदीआ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mahdia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mahdia”
- Norwegian: “Mahdia”
- Persian: “المهدیه (تونس)”
- Persian: “المهدیه”
- Polish: “Al-Mahdija”
- Polish: “Al-Mahdijja”
- Portuguese: “Mádia”
- Portuguese: “Mahdia”
- Romanian: “Mahdia”
- Russian: “Махдия”
- Scots: “Mahdia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mahdia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mahdija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mahdiya”
- Sicilian: “Al-Mahdia”
- Sicilian: “Al-Mahdiya”
- Sicilian: “El Mehdia”
- Sicilian: “Madhia”
- Sicilian: “Mahdia”
- Sinhala: “මහ්දියා”
- Slovenian: “Mahdia”
- South Azerbaijani: “المهدیه (تونس)”
- South Azerbaijani: “المهدیه”
- Spanish: “Al-Mahdiya”
- Spanish: “Mahdia”
- Spanish: “Mahdía”
- Swahili: “Mahdia, Tunisia”
- Swedish: “Mahdia”
- Tamil: “மஹடிய”
- Telugu: “మెహదీయ”
- Thai: “มาดียา”
- Thai: “อัลมะฮ์ดียะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Mehdiye”
- Ukrainian: “Магдія”
- Ukrainian: “Махдія”
- Urdu: “مہدیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Mahdia”
- Western Panjabi: “مہدیہ (شہر)”
- Western Panjabi: “مہدیہ”
- Zulu: “i-Mahdia”
- Zulu: “Mahdia”
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