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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.
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] 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 civilisation of Ancient Carthage and later Roman ...
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of New York, in the United States Wikimedia Commons has media related to Archaeological sites in New York (state) . Subcategories
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 Carthaginians, however, were not the only ones to ...
In ancient times "cothon" was only used to describe the harbour at Carthage. [3] In modern times, however, archaeologists use the term to refer to similar ancient harbours constructed of a man-made basin connected to the sea by a channel. [4] The name comes from an island in Carthage's harbour. [5]
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 ...