Talk:Sousse

Names

 * I have the surname "deSousa," Portuguese lineage, and wonder if Susa (Iran) or Susse (Tunisia) is the referent of this name. Pdesousa 16:01, 15 June 2007 (UTC)pdesousa

Population
How many inhabitants are there? 3 completely different figures are quoted in the article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.13.31.29 (talk) 21:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I think "more than 540,000" applies to the whole Sousse Governorate, not the city itself, so I replaced it with "about 200,000". The city's official homepage says the population is 185 263 but does not mention the date or sources. It would be nice to see references to the sources in the article.90.190.113.12 (talk) 08:46, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Create a new article on the history of Sousse
To make a long story short, please see my comment at Talk:Hadrumetum and respond there if anyone has comments. --AlexanderVanLoon (talk) 09:47, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅. — Llywelyn II   15:21, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

"Archaeology"
This section
 * The official Tunisian body for matters of heritage and archaeology is the National Heritage Institute (INP). That body maintains a project known as the Carte Nationale des Sites Archéologiques et des Monuments Historiques.

seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with Hadrumetum or Sousse. Any idea how it could be used with more focus on the topic here? — Llywelyn II   15:21, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Roman circus
This section
 * A PDF file (in French), available from the site of the Institut National du Patrimoine Tunisie / National Heritage Institute (INP), containing over 400 pages from various reports and papers produced by the SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE SOUSSE around 1903, contains some 10 references to the word cirque in the context of Sousse. This document makes absolutely clear that in 1903 the Roman circus of Sousse was considered the only public monument of Sousse whose location was known (PDF page 204).

in addition to its poor formatting and inclusion of every possible alternate and foreign name for sth we already have a separate article about 1 doesn't say anything about the circus except roughly where it's located and that it was the only ruin known 115 years ago; 2 the second bit isn't incredibly interesting given that a century of archaeology might've uncovered plenty since then and the article already mentions and cites the completeness of the Vandal and Arab destructions of the town; 3, cite or not, it's also patently false since the catacombs were discovered in the year 1903; 4, cites or not, it's also patently self-contradictory since it's claimed the ruin was "known" but then has to reconstruct the position based on aerial photographs which 5 is of course of the sort that we can undertake in  cases but can't and shouldn't document as the  for the information. Surely, if the ruin was known, its location was known as well and can be used from the same source. 7 The number of times a French word appears in a government PDF is not really germane to anything about the city of Sousse. If any of those appearances say something important, then just include that. Last, the page numbers should just be included in the cites in some fashion, not added into the running text of the article itself. — Llywelyn II   01:24, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * From the discussion in this file, and from an aerial photograph it would appear certain that the Roman circus of Sousse was located, with a north-south orientation, about 1 km north-west of the walls of the medina at a location which, today, is partially occupied by a sports ground.

Corniche sousse
Lettre 102.25.132.142 (talk) 20:37, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Is this Juny Tony?
among us 178.216.218.9 (talk) 06:21, 14 April 2024 (UTC)