TUNISIA

TUNISIA / تونس (French occupation).

Definitive stamps.
Rock and village of Takrouna.
Fourth stamp in a set of 16, issued on 29.05.1954.
Face value: 4 Tunisian francs.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 830,000 copies.
Size: 22 x 26 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 410.
- Scott No. 239.
- StampWorld No. 418.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 373.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 369.

Takrouna (in Tamazight, ⵜⴰⴽⵔⵓⵏⴰ; in Arabic, تكرونة) is a Tunisian town located on top of the rock of the same name, also known in French as Rocher Bleu, at an altitude of about 200 meters above sea level, north of the Kairouan plain and facing the Gulf of Hammamet. It is believed that it was founded by the descendants of a Amazigh (Berber) tribe that settled in Andalusia in the 8th century, after the final expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula in 1609; however, the place had already been populated in times of the Roman Empire. Takrouna was the scene of the last major action by New Zealand troops in North Africa during World War II, before the surrender of Italy and Germany. The town has about 600 inhabitants that make up seven family nuclei, one of them of Andalusian origin.