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noun - an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis
An ancient city and state of northern Africa on the Bay of Tunis northeast of modern Tunis.
CARTHAGE - Carthage (; from Latin: Carthago; Arabic: ; Punic: , Qart-adat, "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization,...
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| Dying in 149 B.C. finally stopped Roman statesman Cato from nagging, this African city "must be destroyed" |
| Around 480 B.C. Himilco of this powerful north African city sailed the Atlantic, maybe as far north as Ireland |
| In 439 A.D. the Vandals established their capital in this North African city founded by the Phoenicians |
| Cato the Elder's obsession with the threat offered by this city led in part to the Third Punic War |
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| In 146 B.C. Scipio Aemilianus captured this African city & destroyed its walls |
| The Punic Wars were against this city founded by Phoenicians |
| Fearing its rise again after the Second Punic war, Cato the Elder ended speeches with this city "must be destroyed" |
| This city in Africa was razed by the Romans, but a stone column dedicated to its gods Tanit & Baal-Hammon is in the British Museum |
| Numidia was a longtime ally of Rome & received many refugees from this rival place that was sacked in 146 B.C. |
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Carthage (; from Latin: Carthago; Arabic: ; Punic: , Qart-adat, "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia. * The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of an empire dominating the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. The legendary Queen Dido is regarded as the founder of the city, though her historicity has been questioned. According to accounts by Timaeus of Tauromenium, she purchased from a local tribe the amount of land that could be covered by an oxhide. Cutting the skin into strips, she laid out her claim and founded an empire that would become, through the Punic Wars, the only existential threat to the Roman Empire until the coming of the Vandals several centuries later.The ancient city was destroyed by the Roman Republic in the Third Punic War in 146 BC then re-developed as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of t |