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Signpost to the post office
The paragraph reads as follows: According to this Tunisian tradition, the
place that was formed by the gradual
"Sloughuia: The saint and his dog accumulation of houses around the
sanctuary of Sidi Ali Ben Othman got its
Having traveled far from Morocco, Sidi Ali name after his bitch, so that the
Ben Othman had only one companion: a speculation that the dogs got their name
bitch of the breed Sloughui. She had from this place came to an end there.
faithfully followed him to the fork in the
road from Teboursouk. Nevertheless, this assumption cannot be
ruled out, because such traditions are
When the old man discovered the white mostly explanations for place names that
village clinging to the mountainside, he were invented rather late.
relied on the animal's instincts to choose
the site for his house. Editor's note: Zaher Kammoun in Slouguia
et sa mosquee tells us more:
And where the "Slouguia" stopped, he chose
his abode, which became the sacred "The city of Slouguia founded in 1609, is
Marabout protector of the area." (Note located in the northwest of Tunisia not far
Marabout or Marabut refers to an Islamic from the city of Testour. This city was
saint as well as his burial place). founded on a Roman city named Chidibbia
which was a peregrine city until the
beginning of the reign of Septimius Severus.
Then it was promoted to the rank of
municipality."
