Agareb

Agareb

Agareb

Commune and town in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia

This article is about the village in Tunisia. For the village in Syria that is also known as "Agareb", see Uqayribat.

Agareb (Tunisian Arabic: عقارب) is a coastal town and commune in eastern Tunisia in the Sfax Governorate. It lies 20 kilometres from Sfax. As of 2004 it had a population of 9610.[1]

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It was founded by an Islamic saint of the fourteenth century, named Brahim ben Yaakoub Sid Agareb صيد (أسد) عقارب.

Agareb has a large industrial area which includes one of largest tile plants in Tunisia. Pastoral and olive production are important.

A civil society campaign called Manish Msab ("I am not a landfill") drew national attention to Agareb as "home of the country's most toxic landfill."[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique)
  2. [2]
    Salman, Lana (2021-04-29). "Environmentalism After Decentralization: The Local Politics of Solid Waste Management in Tunisia". Arab Reform Initiative.

34°26′N 10°11′E

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