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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 ɑː r θ ɪ dʒ / is the Early Modern anglicisation of Middle French Carthage /kar.taʒ/, from Latin Carthāgō and Karthāgō (cf. Greek Karkhēdōn (Καρχηδών) and Etruscan *Carθaza) from the Punic qrt-ḥdšt (Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City'). [13] [14]
In the course of the Punic wars (264–146 BC), the Romans challenged Carthaginian hegemony in the western Mediterranean, culminating in the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, but the Punic language and Punic culture endured under Roman rule, surviving in some places until late antiquity.
Hamilcar Barca (c. 270–228 BC) — general during and after the First Punic War (264–241 BC). Father of Hannibal of the Second Punic War; 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
The city benefited from the development of Carthage before receiving large numbers of refugees when Carthage fell in 146 BC. Massinissa finally took the city in 149 BC. [2] The Neo-Punic period saw a definite development: stelae from the 1st century found at Bab El Aïn testify to the presence of a tophet; the main deity at that time was Baal ...
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 ...
Carthage (from Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, romanized: qart hadaš, lit. 'New City') was a city in North Africa located on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis across from the center of what is now Tunis in Tunisia .
Temple of Juno Caelestis was a temple in Carthage, constructed in the 2nd century AD and closed in 399. [1] It was converted to a Christian church in 399 and was destroyed in 421. No remains of the temple has been found. It was one of the biggest buildings of Roman Carthage as well as one of its biggest holy sites.