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Zaouiet Sousse

Tunisian town

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ3574797 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zaouiet Sousse is a town and commune in the Sousse Governorate, Tunisia. As of 2014 it had a population of 20,681.

It constitutes an agricultural village essentially centered on olive growing and cattle breeding. It is also a major producer of milk, transported from a collection center to the dairies of Sidi Bou Ali.

Editorial summary

“Zaouiet Sousse” enters the record as tunisian town. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zaouiet, Sousse and Tunisian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zaouiet, Sousse and Tunisian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Zaouiet Sousse” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zaouiet, Sousse and Tunisian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3574797. Authority coordinates are 35.789, 10.627. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Zaouiet Sousse”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zaouiet Sousse primary sources, Zaouiet Sousse archive and Zaouiet research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Zaouiet Sousse”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Zaouiet Sousse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.