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In the year 814 BC, they founded the city of Carthage on the north African coast in what is now Tunisia. [3] After the fall of Phoenicia to the Babylonians and then the Persians , Carthage became the most powerful Phoenician city in the Mediterranean and the Carthaginians annexed many of the other Phoenician colonies around the coasts of the ...
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.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Map of ancient Carthage showing the peninsular location and the lake Tunis below and the lake Arina above. The site of Carthage was likely chosen by the Tyrians for several reasons. It was located in the central shore of the Gulf of Tunis, which gave it access to the Mediterranean sea while shielding it from the region's infamously violent storms.
During Spain's New World Empire, its mainland coastal possessions surrounding the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were referred to collectively as the Spanish Main.The southern portion of these coastal possessions – the northern portion of South America, the Pacific Coast of Colombia and Mexico, and Central America – were known as the Province of Tierra Firme (Spanish: Provincia de ...
1937 map of Tunis and environs Saint Louis Cathedral (1899 photograph) TGM station Carthage (1940s photograph). Roman Carthage was destroyed following the Muslim invasion of 698, and it remained under the control of the Arabs and later Ottoman rule for more than a thousand years (being replaced in the function of regional capital by the Medina of Tunis), until the establishment of the French ...
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.
Carthage; Ports puniques de Carthage; Site archéologique de Carthage; Byrsa; Tophet de Carthage; Thermes d'Antonin; Colline de l'odéon et parc des villas romaines de Carthage; Quartier Magon; Fontaine aux mille amphores; Basilique de Damous El Karita; Basilique de Saint-Cyprien; Mosaïque du seigneur Julius; Édifice à colonnes de Carthage