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From Antiquity, historians mention Djerba that they identify with the first island where, in the Odyssey, Homer causes Ulysses and his companions to fail, lost in the sea after the Trojan War (around 1185 BC). C.) [11]; for having tasted the lotos, "sweet fruit like honey which plunges all those who taste it in the delights of a blessed oblivion which erases all worries of existence", Ulysses, "that this miraculous fruit would have plunged into a happy amnesia ”[12], barely leaving the island of Lotophages (lottery eaters) [13]. At the dawn of history, the territory of present-day Tunisia is populated by Berbers with a Neolithic way of life. [14] Several specialists, including Lucien Bertholon [15] and Stéphane Gsell [16], admit the existence of migrations between the Aegean Sea and the Gulf of Syrtes, where Djerba is located, during the second millennium BC. Even before the foundation of Carthage, in the ninth century BC. BC, Phoenicians of Tyraur established several trading posts along the coast of Libya and present-day Tunisia to Utica. Djerba was undoubtedly one of them. The Pseudo-Scylax Period, which dates back approximately to the middle of the fourth century BC. J.-C., gives on the island the oldest indications, except those of Homer: "We make a lot of oil there, which we get from the wild olive tree; the island also produces a lot of fruit, wheat, barley, the soil is fertile [8]. "

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