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Like the sufetes, council members were elected from the wealthiest elements of Carthaginian society. Important matters of state required unanimous agreement of the sufetes and of council members. According to Aristotle, Carthage's "highest constitutional authority" was a judicial tribunal known as the One Hundred and Four (𐤌𐤀𐤕 or miat).
Plan of Roman Carthage Map of Roman remains within the modern Carthage municipality. 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 ...
Carthage had an assembly referred to by Polybius as the "Great Council", [41] a plenary assembly and a restricted assembly, the "Council of Elders". Members of the Grand Council were members of the city's leading families. [31]
Map of Roman Africa Proconsularae. Castus, at the Council of Carthage (255), at which he addressed the meeting [4] Patritius mentioned in 349; Fortunatianus mentioned in 407, present at the Council of Carthage (411) and spoken of by St. Augustine, [5] Urbanus in 418, mentioned in 429 by Augustine, [6] Paul towards 480; Candidus in 646. [7]
Map of Rome and Carthage at the start of the Second Punic War.svg, itself a derived version of Rome carthage 218.jpg, a map appearing in: Shepherd, William R. (1923) "Rome and Carthage at the Beginning of the Second Punic War, 218 B.C." in Historical Atlas, Category:New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 32 OCLC: 1980660.
The name Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij) is the Early Modern anglicisation of Middle French Carthage /kartaʒə/, [12] from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō (cf. Greek Karkhēdōn (Καρχηδών) and Etruscan *Carθaza) from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt (𐤒𐤓𐤕 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕 ) "new city", [b] implying it was a "new Tyre". [14]
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Rome_carthage_218.jpg licensed with PD-US . 2006-11-17T15:51:02Z Rune X2 1108x822 (194898 Bytes) == Summary == '''Rome and Carthage at the Beginning of the Second Punic War, 218 B.C.''' Scan from "Historical Atlas" by William R. Shepherd, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1923.
Especially important within this system was the city, where the magistrates, councils, and assemblies of urban centers governed themselves and areas of the countryside around them. These cities could vary enormously both in population and territory from the tiny Greek poleis of several hundred citizens to the great metropoleis such as ...