Douiret
Douiret is a ruined Berber village in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. Located on a hilltop near a modern village of the same name, Douiret was a fortified granary, or ksar Like other ksour created by North African Berber communities, Douiret was built on a hilltop to help protect it from raiding parties.
- Type: Village with 881 residents
- Description: village in Tunisia
- Address: Douiret, 3232
- Postal code: 3232
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chenini.
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Village
Douiret
- Category: locality
- Location: Eddouiret, Tataouine Sud, Tataouine Governorate, Tunisia, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
32.85719° or 32° 51′ 26″ north
Longitude
10.28945° or 10° 17′ 22″ east
Population
881
Open location code
8F4GV74Q+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Douiret” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دويرات”
- Bulgarian: “Дуират”
- Catalan: “Douiret”
- Dutch: “Douiret”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دويرات”
- French: “Douiret”
- German: “Douiret”
- Italian: “Douiret”
- Kabyle: “Dwiret”
- Persian: “دویرات”
- Portuguese: “Douiret”
- Portuguese: “Duirete”
- Russian: “Двират”
- Russian: “Дуирет”
- Spanish: “Douiret”
- Turkish: “Duayrat”
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