Edge Rewrite
// request.cf · coarse context

A page that knows where it met you.

Only coarse request metadata is shown. This demo does not display or persist visitor IP addresses.

Country
US
Cloudflare location
CMH
Connection
HTTP/2
Language
Not provided

Ray ID: a259f2540d450bf5

Jump to content

Souk Edabaghine

Metal sign indicating the Tanners Street or 'Souk Edabaghine'
A view of Tanners Street

Souk Edabaghine (Arabic: سوق الدباغين; English: Tanners market), is one of the souks of the medina of Tunis. It is called Edabaghine, the Arabic word for tanners, because it was specialized in leather tanning.[1]

Since this was considered a polluting industry, the souk was located at the outskirts of the medina. The souk connects Mongi Slim Street, previously named Street of Maltese, and Rome Street.

When the tanning industry disappeared, antique and used book sellers in all languages and on all subjects, took over the souk. Today there are about twenty book sellers.

Notes and references

[edit]
  1. Karem Yehia (1 April 2015). "Tournée à souk Al-Dabaghine". hebdo.ahram.org.eg (in French). Retrieved 17 January 2016.

36°48′03″N 10°10′36″E / 36.8009°N 10.1768°E / 36.8009; 10.1768