March 20 is Tunisian Independence Day!

Tunisian Independence Day is celebrated every March 20 to commemorate the day in 1956 when Tunisia left behind 75 years of French colonial rule.
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Independence Day
Issued by Tunisia’s post office in 2022
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Tunisia’s strategic location, i.e. the centre of the North African coast, has long made it a prized possession of empires. The Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and French all took their turns. The French invaded in 1881 and made Tunisia a French protectorate.

During the occupation, many French and Italian immigrants settled in Tunisia, but Arabs remained in the majority. In the aftermath of World War II, Tunisia began to demand independence. Then in 1952, a guerrilla war broke out against the French, led by Habib Bourqeiba, who ended up becoming the first president of Tunisia. The war had succeeded in 1956 in convincing France to recognize Tunisian independence on March 20 of that year.
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