Word: medjerda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
From the border at least one column followed the Medjerda valley toward the harbor of Bizerte, where the enemy was first met. Another may have headed straight east to Tunis; another may have branched off to Gafsa and started the long trek through mid-Tunisia toward the Libyan border...