Mahres
Mahres
المحرس Mahares, El Mahres | |
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| Coordinates: 34°32′N 10°30′E / 34.533°N 10.500°E | |
| Country | Tunisia |
| Governorate | Sfax Governorate |
| Area | |
• Total | 13 km2 (5 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
• Total | 15,878 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
Mahres (Tunisian Arabic: "place for guard"), also known as Mahares or El Mahres, is a coastal town in Tunisia about thirty kilometers south of Sfax and 300 kilometers from Tunis. It had 15,878 inhabitants in 2014.
Administratively attached to the governorate of Sfax, it became on April 1, 1918 a municipality and, after independence in 1956, the capital of a delegation whose area is estimated at 436 km.