Esperance Sportive de Zarzis (Arabic: الترجي الرياضي الجرجيسي, often referred to as ESZ) is a football club from Zarzis in Tunisia and founded in 1934 by Haj Ali Bouchhioua .
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Zarzis also known as Jarjis (Tunisian Arabic: جرجيس gergīs / zerzīs) is a commune and coastal town in southeastern Tunisia, on the coast of Mediterranean Sea. The climate is mainly dry and sunny, making it a popular tourist destination mixing the old and the traditional. It has a major port where a park of economic activities is based.
To the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs the port was of strategic importance.
The city then known as 'Gergis' was located at the western end of Syrtique, not far from the island of Meninx (current Djerba). According to Stadiasme, it has a castle, where stood the ruins and a citadel modern still bearing the old name is pronounced Zarzis now , and port. This town owes its origin perhaps to Gergesiles which, according to ancient Jewish writers, had left the Canaan at the time of Joshua and went to settle in North Africa.
Located at the southern end of the eastern peninsula that bears his name, the delegation of Zarzis has a very large coastline. There are a variety of landscapes reflecting a great diversity of climatic conditions.