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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. It became the capital city of the civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman ...
The subsequent political upheaval led to a gradual weakening of the monarchy; [136] by at least 308 BC, Carthage was an oligarchic republic, characterized by an intricate system of checks and balances, a complex administrative system, civil society, and a fairly high degree of public
Aeneas tells Dido of the fall of Troy. (Guérin 1815)Carthage was founded by Phoenicians coming from the Levant.The city's name in Phoenician language means "New City". [5] There is a tradition in some ancient sources, such as Philistos of Syracuse, for an "early" foundation date of around 1215 BC – that is before the fall of Troy in 1180 BC; however, Timaeus of Taormina, a Greek historian ...
For a long time, the question of Carthage's constitution revolved around the debate over kingship in Carthage. Classical authors considered that a monarchy had existed in the city, and even in the early 20th century, Karl Julius Beloch fiercely defended the thesis of the existence of Carthaginian kings.
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.
Until 308 BC Carthage was ruled, at least officially, by monarchs, in the sense of the word that executive power was held by one person. [1] It also seems for the time period below to have been passed down in the clan of the Magonids. The title itself was most likely Suffete. [2]: 115–116 Hannonids. Hanno I c. 580 – c. 556 BC
Hannibal (247–183/182 BC) — general who fought the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War; Hannibal Mago (died 406 BC) — shofet (magistrate) of Carthage in 410 BC; Hannibal Gisco (died 258 BC) — military commander in the First Punic War; Hannibal the Rhodian — ship captain during the siege of Lilybaeum in the First Punic War
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 ...