Kairouan

Summary

Kairouan is a municipality of Tunisia^[1]. Kairouan ranks in the top 0.8% of municipality_of_tunisia entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (557 views/month, #2 of 250).^[2]

Key Facts

• Kairouan was a member of Organization of World Heritage Cities^[3].
• Kairouan is located in Kairouan Governorate^[4].
• Kairouan is in the country of Tunisia^[5].
• Kairouan's image is recorded as View of Kairouan from the Minaret of the Great Mosque - Tunisia - 1899.jpg^[6].
• Kairouan's instance of is recorded as municipality of Tunisia^[7].
• Kairouan's founder is recorded as Uqba ibn Nafi^[8].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Bursa^[9].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Timbuktu^[10].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Fez^[11].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Samarkand^[12].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Tlemcen^[13].
• Kairouan's twinned administrative body is recorded as Córdoba^[14].
• Kairouan's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 266992672^[15].
• Kairouan's GND ID is recorded as 4029239-3^[16].
• Kairouan's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82164827^[17].
• Kairouan's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11938055p^[18].
• Kairouan's postal code is recorded as 3100^[19].
• Kairouan's Commons category is recorded as Kairouan^[20].
• Kairouan's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+01:00^[21].
• Kairouan's has part is recorded as Medina of Kairouan^[22].
• Kairouan's has part is recorded as Zawiya of Sidi Sahib^[23].
• Kairouan's has part is recorded as Greater Aghlabid Cistern^[24].
• Kairouan's has part is recorded as Lesser Aghlabid Cistern^[25].
• +0670-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Kairouan^[26].
• Kairouan's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 35.68333333333333, 'lon': 10.1}^[27].

Body

Founding

Kairouan's founder is recorded as Uqba ibn Nafi^[8]. +0670-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Kairouan^[26].

Identity

Kairouan's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'القيروان'}^[28].

Why It Matters

Kairouan ranks in the top 0.8% of municipality_of_tunisia entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (557 views/month, #2 of 250).^[2] Kairouan has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[29] Kairouan is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[30]