Gabès

Gabès was a coastal oasis and port on the Gulf of Gabès. In 1337 the Banu Makki family governed it under Hafsid overlordship, whose governorship the family had secured in 1282.

The family extended its control to Sfax and Tripoli by the mid-fourteenth century and later built an effectively independent power. It added the Jerid oases in 1380. The Hafsid sultan broke its power at the Battle of Gabès in 1387 and restored direct rule by 1394. In 1574 Gabès passed to the Ottomans with the rest of Tunisia.