Ksar Ouled Soltane (Arabic: قصر أولاد سلطان) is a fortified granary, or ksar, located in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. The ksar is spread out over two courtyards, each of which has a perimeter of multi-story vaulted granary cellars, or ghorfas. Like other ksour (plural of ksar) built by Berber communities Ksar Ouled Soltane, is located on a hilltop, to help protect it from raiding parties in previous centuries.
Ksar Ouled Soltane is now a tourist destination, with visitors coming to see its well-preserved granary vaults. It was also featured in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in some of the scenes used to represent the slave quarters of Mos Espa, where the character Anakin Skywalker lived as a boy.[1]
^Stars of the Desert - A journey across the dunes of Tunisia to discover lost "Tatooine" by Brady Walters.
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KsarOuledSoltane (Arabic: قصر أولاد سلطان) is a fortified granary, or ksar, located in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. The ksar is spread...
fortified settlements (ksars), manifestations of Berber architecture, such as KsarOuledSoltane, Chenini, Douiret, and Ksar Hadada, are popular tourist...
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films in 1998, locations at Onk Jemal (Ong Jmal) in Tozeur, KsarOuledSoltane and Ksar Hadada, Ghomrassen were used for Tatooine scenes. Abandoned sets...
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a regular stop on southern Tunisia's ksar trail, along with the villages of Chenini, KsarOuledSoltane and Ksar Hadada. The old village of Douiret is...
a regular stop on southern Tunisia's ksar trail, along with the villages of Douiret, KsarOuledSoltane and Ksar Hadada. The village is home to the Mosquée...
fortified granaries (ghorfa), such as the examples in Medenine and KsarOuledSoltane, typically built with loose stone bound by a mortar of clay. The island...
Fortified settlements (ksars), manifestations of Berber architecture, such as KsarOuledSoltane, Chenini, Douiret, and Ksar Hadada, are popular tourist...
fortified granaries (ghorfa), such as the examples in Medenine and KsarOuledSoltane, which are typically built with loose stone bound by a mortar of clay...
along with their next clue. In Puzzling, teams would have had to find KsarOuledSoltane and solve a simple dice game in order to receive their next clue....
non-Muslims); impressive storage buildings at Guermessa und Ksar Hadada; and KsarOuledSoltane, south of Tataouine. The remaining cave dwellers have responded...
(Cambridge Univ. 1971) pp. 1–6. The World Factbook on "Tunisia". KsarOuledSoltane was filmed for an episode of Star Wars. Donna Wheeler; Paul Clammer;...
The list of ksars (Arabic: ksour) in Tunisia is established by Herbert Popp and Abdelfettah Kassah and published in their book Les ksour du Sud tunisien :...
was born in the village of OuledSoltane, near Ksar el-Kebir. He finished his primary and secondary education in the Ksar el-Kebir, where he obtained...