37°03′29″N 9°07′20″E / 37.058169°N 9.122127°E / 37.058169; 9.122127
Soldier of the 2nd Parachute Battalion examines a memorial to the 1st Parachute Brigade in the Tamara Valley, 14 October 1943Tamera
[1] is a location, and valley in northern
Tunisia.
During the
Roman Empire,
Tagarbala,
[2] was a
civitas of the
Roman province of
Byzacena during
late antiquity. The Roman town is identifiable with
ruins at
Bordj-Tamra.
The town saw
British airborne operations in North Africa during
World War II.
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
There is a
railway station there.
[8]
References
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^
Tamera, Tunisia, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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^
Titular Episcopal See of Tagarbala, at Gcatholic.org.
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^ Otway, Lieutenant-Colonel T. B. H. (1990). The Second World War 1939–1945 Army – Airborne Forces. Imperial War Museum.
ISBN
0-901627-57-7. p 87.
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^
"Tamera, Bizerte, Tunisia Satellite Weather Map". AccuWeather. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
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^
"Tamera, Station de, Tunisia Map with Wikipedia Places".
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^ The
London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36018. p. 2208. 14 May 1943
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^ Ferguson, Gregor. The Paras 1940–84. Volume 1 of Elite series. (
Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 1984).
ISBN
0-85045-573-1. p10.
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^
Station de Tamera, at mapcarta.com.