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| name= Gulf of Gabès
| other_name = Lesser Syrtis
| native_name ={{native name|aeb|خليج قابس}}
| image=Gulf of Gabes NASA.jpg
| caption = Satellite image of the Gulf of Gabès
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The '''Gulf of Gabes''' (or '''Cabès''', '''Cabes''', '''Gaps''';<ref>see e.g.: ''Cabès'' in
[[John Bostock (physician)|John Bostock]], [[Henry Thomas Riley]] (eds.), ''The natural history of Pliny, Volume 1'', 1855, chapter 4, "The Syrtes", [https://books.google.com/books?id=VzwZAAAAYAAJ
''Gaps'' in Charles Anthon, ''A classical dictionary: containing an account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors'', 1842, [https://books.google.com/books?id=kzEoAAAAYAAJ
==History==
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In Book IV of the ''Histories'', [[Herodotus]] describes a violent ritual that took place in the region:{{quote|During a festival dedicated to the goddess Athena, their young women divided into two camps and then set to fighting each other with blows from stones and wooden clubs, thereby enacting, as they say, a ceremonial that was instituted by their ancestors in honor of the indigenous deity whom we call Athena. Some of them who die from the wounds are called false virgins.}}
A modern counterpart to this festival of violence, involving two opposing gangs near the [[Chott el Djerid|Shatt al-Jerid]] annually engaging in combat with stones and clubs was described in ''Une fete de printemps au Jerid'' (1942) by G. Payre.<ref>Brent D. Shaw. (2011). Sacred Violence. [Online]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Cambridge Books Online {{
==Geography==
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