Order of the Republic (Tunisia)

Order of the Republic
Awarded by The President of The Republic of Tunisia
Established	16 March 1959
Ribbon
Status	Currently constituted
Grand Master	President of Tunisia
Grades	Grand Cordon Grand Officer Commander Officer Knight
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of Independence
Next (lower)	National Order of Merit

The Order of the Republic is an order of Tunisia, founded 16 March 1959.

Some major recipients

Grand Cross

National

• Mohamed Ennaceur ^[1]
• Beji Caid Essebsi ^[2]

Foreign

• Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
• Argentina: Carlos Menem
• Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser
• Egypt: Anwar Sadat
• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak
• Egypt: Taha Hussein
• Ethiopia: Haile Selassie
• France: Jacques Chirac
• France: François Hollande
• France: Emmanuel Macron
• Italy: Giorgio Napolitano
• Japan: Akihito
• Jordan: King Abdullah II
• Jordan: Princess Muna, Princess Mother ^[3]
• Morocco: Abd el-Krim (1960)
• Morocco: King Mohammed VI (Grand Cordon 1987; Collar 2014)
• Morocco: Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco (2014)
• Netherlands: Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Palestine: Yasser Arafat
• Palestine: Mahmoud Abbas
• Saudi Arabia: Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal ^[4]
• Saudi Arabia: Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud (1985)
• Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman (2018) ^[5]
• Saudi Arabia: Salman of Saudi Arabia (2019) ^[6]
• South Africa: Nelson Mandela
• Senegal: Léopold Sédar Senghor
• Spain: Juan Carlos I
• Sweden: King Carl XVI Gustaf
• Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2017) ^[7]
• United Kingdom: Elizabeth II
• United Kingdom: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Grand Officer

National

• Mohamed Habib Gherab
• Kamel Morjane
• Mohamed Talbi
• Hichem Djait

Foreign

• Algeria: Djamila Bouhired ^[8]
• Algeria: Mohamed Belhocine ^[9]
• Egypt: Amr Moussa
• Denmark: Princess Benedikte
• Sweden: Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland

Commander

• Serbia: Milica Čubrilo ^[10]
• France: Benoît Puga
• Tunisia: Yadh Ben Achour
• Egypt: Ahmed Zewail

References

1. Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008. – p. 288
2. Walter de Gruyter, ed. (2007). "Essebsi (Beji, Qaid)". Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008. Berlin. p. 290. ISBN   978-3-110-93004-7..
3. "Tunisian President Habib Ben Ali Bourguiba, Jordan King Hussein ibn..." Getty Images. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
4. "Alwaleed". alwaleed.com.sa. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
5. "BCE décore MBS des insignes du grand cordon de la République". 28 November 2018.
6. "King Salman, Tunisian president hold talks, oversee signing of two deals & confer medals". 29 March 2019.
7. "Erdoğan'a Tunus'ta devlet nişanı takdim edildi". aa.com.tr. 27 December 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
8. "من هي أيقونة الثورة التي منحها رئيس تونس أعلى وسام؟". Al Arabiya (in Arabic). 23 January 2020.
9. "Dr. Mohammed Belhocine promu commandeur de l'Ordre de la République | Le PNUD en Tunisie". tn.undp.org. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019.
10. "EAST-WEST BRIDGE". ewb.rs. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

External links

• Media related to Order of the Republic (Tunisia) at Wikimedia Commons