the capital of the kingdom of Tunis, thirty miles south of Carthage ruins, 300 miles east of Algiers, and 120 south-west of Trapani, in Sicily; a populous city, about three miles in circumference: E. long. 10° N. lat. 36° 20'. The kingdom of Tunis is situated on the coast of Barbary, in Africa, being bounded by the Mediterranean sea on the north. It extends 200 miles in length from east to west, along the shore of the Mediterranean; the breadth is very unequal.