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T H E S L O U G H I R E V I E W
ABOUT THE NAME OF THE TUNISIAN LOCALITY
SLOUGHIA
BY MONIKA DAHNCKE (ROSHANZAMIR) - GERMANY
Signpost to the town
Text first published in “Unsere
Windhunde”, October 1987.
Photographs & translation from German
by M.-D. Crapon de Caprona 2008 & 2022.
There is a place in Tunisia situated
between Teboursouk and Testour, whose
name is "Slouguia" - the feminine form of
Slougui.
There have been various speculations as
to whether this place is related to the
name of the North African sighthound,
written Sloughi in this country.
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From the period between 1962 and 1968,
when I was in Tunisia several times a year,
originates an old friendship I had with Hadi
Ben Romdane, the former school director
of Mahdija. Mr. Romdane now lives in Tunis
as a pensioner.
He knows about my passion for
sighthounds and sent me an excerpt from
the French-language Tunisian newspaper
"La Presse" from November 15, 1986.
From an almost full-page, large-format
article with a tip for a weekend trip, he
fished out a paragraph that contains
valuable information about the above
speculation.