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      El Jem is better preserved and not much smaller than its more illustrious counterpart in Rome, the Colosseum. Estimates of its original capacity run to 30,000 - much more than the present or past population of the town                
                             

     
 
©Richard Cain
GlobalWanderings

June 2005

   
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