"Troglodyte habitat and the world of the ksour of southern Tunisia is a serial cultural property that illustrates traditional forms of human settlement and land use that are representative of the ways of life of indigenous communities in southern Tunisia and their interaction with a unfavorable or even hostile natural environment. It is made up of two large groups which are the troglodyte dwellings built in caves dug into the hillside of Jebel Sened in the governorate of Gafsa and the troglodyte villages with the dwellings excavated in the ground in a soil formed of clay sand of Matmata and de Tamezret in the governorate of Gabès, and a selection representative of the typological richness of the fortified collective granaries commonly called ksour (singular kasr) in the governorates of Medenine and Tataouine, and which bear witness to a semi-nomadic way of life and a traditional form of social organization based on solidarity and the strength of tribal ties."
Source: UNESCO WHS Tentative List
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