Place details
Place nameBéja
Other namesBeja, Bajah, Vacca, Vaga
CountryTunis
Latitude36.717
Longitude9.217
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Former Punic settlement; became a Roman colony after defeat of Carthage; taken by Arabs around 1000; under control of Turkey in the 1500s; site of fighting during World War II between Allied & Nazi troops on highway running N to Bizerte; exports wheat.