M'saken
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M'saken مساكن |
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 M'saken
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| Coordinates: 35°44′0″N 10°35′0″E / 35.73333°N 10.58333°ECoordinates: 35°44′0″N 10°35′0″E / 35.73333°N 10.58333°E | |
| Country |
 Tunisia
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| Governorate | Sousse Governorate |
| Government | |
| • Type | Republic |
| • President | Béji Caid Es-Sebsi |
| Elevation | 469 ft (143 m) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Total | 97,225 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC1) |
| Msaken | |
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Monument in Msaken city center 2012
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| Msaken Municipality Garden |
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M'saken (Arabic: مساكن Msākan; also spelled Masakin, Msaken) is a town in north-eastern Tunisia, close to Sousse.
The origin of the word comes from "Msaken" masken (plural masken) meaning "habitat", "house" or "dwelling". And it's mainly referring to "Housing of honorable people" (Masken el achraf) due to the first inhabitants that came from honorable siblings.
The town is the administration center of a "delegation" (district) of the same name, which at the 2014 Census had a population of 97,225.
The following villages are part of Msaken delegation
Habib Chatti or Habib Chatty, born August 9, 1916 at M'saken and died March 6, 1991 in Paris, is a Tunisian diplomat and politician. After completing his primary education in his hometown, he continued his studies at the Collège Sadiki Tunis. He works in the late 1930s in the press as editor of the newspaper Assabah. In 1955, he was appointed as Director of Information in the Government of Tahar Ben Ammar. Ambassador of Tunisia in 1958, he became Chief of Staff of President Habib Bourguiba in 1972, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 14 January 1974 to 24 December 1977. In 1979, he was elected Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, whose headquarters is located in Jeddah.
According to local traditions, Msaken was founded by a group of descendants of Husayn Ibn Ali and Fatima Ez-zahra (Muhammed's daughter).
Their ancestors had come to North Africa escaping from the Abbassid masters of Baghdad, who had been engaged in a cruel fight against Sharifians (descendants of Hassan and Hussein, the sons of Ali and Fatima).
They founded a Sharifian Emirate in near present-day Tiaret in west-central Algeria.
After three generations and following the fall of this Emirate, some of their descendants lived in eastern Morocco near Oujda for some time.
Then some of their descendants emigrated to Kairouan in Tunisia.
After some decades, they founded the town of Msaken town at the time of the Hafsid dynasty which was based in Tunis.
Their town was originally called 'Kousour al Ashraf' (which means "Sharif's houses"), then 'Masakin al Ashraf' (which has the same meaning), and finally Masakin - or 'Msaken' as it is pronounced and spelled in North Africa.
The town centre was built around the Jamma al Awsat (which means the central mosque) and was composed of five ksars (great houses).
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