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The Falbe Punic inscriptions are three Punic inscriptions, found in Carthage by Christian Tuxen Falbe in 1833 in Husainid Tunisia. They were published in his Recherches sur l'emplacement de Carthage. [1] Two of them are known as CIS I 199 and CIS I 438.
In Punic Sardinia, Sid or Sid Babi (known to the Romans as Sardus Pater and apparently an indigenous deity) received worship as the son of Melqart and was particularly associated with the island. [13] At Maktar, to the southwest of Carthage, an important god was Hoter Miskar [14] ("the sceptre of Miskar").
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]
Carthage narrowly avoided destruction after the Second Punic War, but was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC after the Third Punic War. The Romans later founded a new city in its place. [ 12 ] All remnants of Carthaginian civilization came under Roman rule by the first century AD, and Rome subsequently became the dominant Mediterranean power ...
Carthage is a village in the town of Wilna in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 3,236 at the 2020 census. The population was 3,236 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The village of Carthage is along the southern border of the town of Wilna and is east of Watertown .
State Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Carthage in Jefferson County, New York. The district includes 26 contributing buildings. They are attached brick commercial buildings built between 1860 and 1900 in a variety of styles. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Carthage: A Biography. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781003119685. Hoyos, Dexter (2019). Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781781593578. Miles, Richard (2010). Carthage must be destroyed: the rise and fall of an ancient Mediterranean civilization.
The matter of the Carthage ports' location has been one of the most discussed in Punic historiography.By observation alone, the two present-day lagoons —one circular and the other rectangular— both joined by a thin string and identified as the ports of Carthage at the beginning of the 19th century by Chateaubriand, could not be the ports that had harboured the fleet of "Rome's greatest ...