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Carthage archaeological site J. M. W. Turner's The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815). The city of Carthage was founded in the 9th century BC on the coast of Northwest Africa, in what is now Tunisia, as one of a number of Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean created to facilitate trade from the city of Tyre on the coast of what is now Lebanon.
The empire of Carthage depended heavily on its trade with Tartessos and other cities of the Iberian Peninsula, [198] [199] from which it obtained vast quantities of silver, lead, copper and – most importantly – tin ore, [200] which was essential to manufacture the bronze objects that were highly prized in antiquity.
The layout of the Punic city-state Carthage, before its fall in 146 BC. Carthage [a] was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.
Here the Romans evidently governed well enough that the province of Africa became integrated into the economy and culture of the Empire, with Carthage as one of its major cities. [102] Sketch of Apuleius. Apuleius (c.125–c.185) managed to thrive in the professional and literary communities of Latin-speaking Carthage.
As the Roman empire expanded, the present Tunisia also included part of the province of Africa Nova. The Carthaginian (or Punic ) empire was finally defeated by the Romans in the Third Punic War (149–146 BC) and there followed a period when nearby kingdoms of Berber kings were allied with Rome and eventually these neighbouring countries were ...
Forget Europe; from the ruins of Carthage to the El Jem amphitheatre, Tunisia’s restoration efforts show off its storied past. Richard Collett takes a deep dive into the country’s fascinating ...
After Carthage's loss to Rome in the Punic Wars, Utica was an important Roman colony for seven centuries. Utica no longer exists, and its remains are located in Bizerte Governorate in Tunisia – not on the coast where it once lay, but further inland because of deforestation and agriculture upriver as the Medjerda River silted over its original ...
Roman Carthage was an important city in ancient Rome, located in modern-day Tunisia. Approximately 100 years after the destruction of Punic Carthage in 146 BC, a new city of the same name ( Latin Carthāgō ) was built on the same land by the Romans in the period from 49 to 44 BC.