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The Carthage Punic Ports were the old ports of the city of Carthage that were in operation during ancient times.Carthage was first and foremost a thalassocracy, [1] that is, a power that was referred to as an Empire of the Seas, whose primary force was based on the scale of its trade.
The cothon at Carthage was divided into a rectangular merchant harbour followed by an inner protected harbour reserved for military use only. This inner harbour was circular and surrounded by an outer ring of structures divided into a series of docking bays for ship maintenance, along with an island structure at its centre that also housed navy ships.
The Battle of the Port of Carthage was a naval battle of the Third Punic War fought in 147 BC between the Carthaginians and the Roman Republic. In the summer of 147 BC, during the Siege of Carthage , the Roman fleet , under the command of Lucius Hostilius Mancinus kept a close watch on the city from the sea.
Carthage [a] was an ancient city ... The circular harbor at the front is the Cothon, the military port of Carthage, where all of Carthage's warships were anchored ...
The Carthage tophet, is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet , a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", [ 1 ] contains a large number of children's tombs which, according to some interpretations, were sacrificed or ...
Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans; Utica - earliest settlement in Africa; Hippo Diarrhytus - now Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa; Hadrumetum; Ruspina; Leptis Parva; Thapsus; Kerkouane; Zama Regia - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only ...
Ancient Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. ' New City ') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. [3] Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state, and then an empire.
When the port city of Locri defected to Carthage in the summer of 215 BC it was immediately used to reinforce the Carthaginian forces in Italy with soldiers, supplies and war elephants. [200] It was the only time during the war that Carthage reinforced Hannibal. [ 201 ]