Ghar el-Melh

Ghar el-Melh
Ghar el-Melh is located in Tunisia
Ghar el-Melh
Ghar el-Melh
Location in Tunisia
Coordinates: 37°10′0″N 10°11′0″E / 37.16667°N 10.18333°E / 37.16667; 10.18333
Country Tunisia
GovernorateBizerte Governorate
Population
 (2014)
 • Total10,530
 [dubiousdiscuss]
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
A nautical chart of the Cape Farina anchorage in 1939
Captain Rafélis de Broves, one of the Europeans who led naval bombardments against Ghar el-Melh in retaliation against its support of piracy

Ghar el-Melh (Arabic: غارالملح, Ghar al-Milh, "Salt Grotto"), the classical Rusucmona and Castra Delia and colonial Porto Farina, is a town and former port on the southern side of Cape Farina in Bizerte Governorate, Tunisia.[1][2]

  1. ^ Tunesieninformationen
  2. ^ "Lexicorient". Archived from the original on 2006-01-10. Retrieved 2006-01-31.