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Le Kram | |
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Commune and town | |
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| Country |  Tunisia |
| Governorate | Tunis Governorate |
| Delegation(s) | Le Kram |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Fathi Laâyouni(Ennahdha) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 3,717 sq mi (9,628 km2) |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 88,302 |
| • Density | 23,750/sq mi (9,171/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Website | www |
Le Kram is a town and commune in theTunis Governorate ofTunisia. Situated betweenLa Goulette, the port ofTunis, andCarthage, it opens onto theGulf of Tunis to the east and theLake of Tunis to the west. As of 2024 it had a population of 88302 .[1] Before 2001, Le Kram was a municipal district within the municipality bordering La Goulette.
The original name of the city wasAga El Kram; it was Gallicised asLe Kram. The wordkram inTunisian Arabic refers to a fig tree or a fruit tree in general. ProfessorMohamed El Aziz Ben Achour says of the town's founder:
"Mustapha Aga [...] living peacefully in his palace in the area of Carthage, in the midst of an extensive orchard with fig trees, the source of the name of the village which was established later in this location... "
Ahmad I ibn Mustafa,Bey of Tunis under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, gave this orchard to Mustafa Aga, who served from 1837 to 1855 as war minister in theKingdom of Tunis.
Under the French protectorate, Kram was home to many Europeans who built houses along the beach, some of them modest and others sumptuous. These villas have been replaced by military training centers and the residential area of Kram Salammbo. One can still admire some of the gardens that surrounded the houses; the oldest were built in a traditional Tunisian style, while the larger homes of the bourgeoisie were built in a purely Italian style, exemplified by La Carmencita, a small villa located on the street Sakiet Sidi Youssef (formerly Rue Jules Ferry). The town was developed mainly as a result of the opening of the Tunis-Goulette-Marsa orTGM railway combining the Khereddine line and theLa Goulette-Carthage Salammbô line.
The center of Salammbô contains, among other curiosities, the remains of the port of Punic Carthage, the Tophet (or sacred area) of the ancient Carthaginians and the buildings of the Institute and Museum of Oceanography
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