Tunis (disambiguation)

Tunis (or Tunes as in Latin) may refer to :

Places, jurisdictions and historical sites:

• the capital of Tunisia, and in several languages also the name for the country
  • Tunis Governorate, a governorate (province) of Tunisia
  • Tunis Eyalet, an administrative unit of the Ottoman Empire
  • Tunes (see), a former diocese and Latin Catholic titular bishopric
  • Battle of Tunis (255 BC), a Carthaginian victory over the Romans in the First Punic War
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
  • Tunis University, Tunisia
• Gulf of Tunis, Tunisia
• Lake of Tunis, a natural lagoon between the city of Tunis and the Gulf of Tunis

People:

• Tunis Campbell (1812-1891), African American politician
• Tunis Craven (1813-1864), U.S. Navy officer
• John R. Tunis (1889-1975), American sports journalist and novelist
• Staffan Tunis (born 1982), Finnish ski-orienteering competitor

Other uses:

• 6362 Tunis, an asteroid
• TUNIS (Toronto University System), a UNIX-like operating system developed at the University of Toronto
• Tunis Grand Prix, an auto race held in the 1920s and 1930s in Tunis, Tunisia
• Tunis Open, a tennis tournament
• Tunis (sheep), a sheep breed