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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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| Founded c. 800 B.C., this great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa has a name meaning "new town" |
| A 3rd century B.C. leader of this Punic city, Hanno the Great opposed costly wars & even negotiated peace with Rome |
| Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement |
| The Vandals plundered this North African capital in 439, though the Romans had "destroyed" it 6 centuries earlier |
| Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C. |
| Dido was the legendary founder of this Phoenician city-state later ruled by the Romans & Vandals |
| Tanit was the goddess of love & war of this North African rival city of Rome |
| The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C. |
| Mormon leader Joseph Smith & his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in 1844 in this Illinois city named for an ancient city of Africa |
| In 439 the Vandals captured this African city, once Rome's rival, & used it as a base for raids across the Mediterranean |
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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 |