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'''El Golâa''' ({{langx|ar|القلعة}} ''{{transl|ar|DIN|Al Qal'ah}}'') is a village in southern [[Tunisia]]. It is located southeast of [[Chott el Djerid]] a few miles north of [[Douz]] in the region of [[Nefzaoua]].
It is administratively attached to the [[Kebili Governorate]], [[Tunisia]]. As of 2014, it had a population of 7,912.<ref name="ins">{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24463&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer Recensement de 2004 (Institut national de la statistique)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035433/http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24463&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer |date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>
Like many villages and towns surrounding its name provides information on the site. Here, El Golâa means "citadel" (like its namesake in the south of the [[Algeria]]). Indeed, the population of El Golâa originally occupied a high point relative to the [[plain]] surrounding. Estimated at 700 people at the end of the nineteenth century, it has steadily expanded its area of Habitat to hold down the hill and then the surrounding plain. As shown in the photo of the village, it remains at the top of the [[Hill]] as one [[mosque]]s of the village (of which there are the [[minaret]]) and a public garden.
Given the absence of written sources, first-hand, it is difficult to define precisely the origins of the population of El Golâa. Several competing narratives about the origin and descent of Guelaouas (so that the villagers are called).
==See also==
*[[List of cities in Tunisia]]
==References==
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