Ancient Carthage was a Phoenician city on the coast of what is now Tunisia, founded as a colony of Tyre according to tradition by the queen Dido, also called Elissa. It grew into the leading commercial power of the western Mediterranean, controlling trade routes and territories in North Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain. Its rivalry with Rome led to the three Punic Wars, in which the general Hannibal famously led an army over the Alps into Italy. After the Third Punic War, the Romans destroyed the city in 146 BCE. Julius Caesar and Augustus later refounded it as a Roman colony, and it became one of the main cities of the Roman Empire in Africa.
Before and after
- from c. 911 BCE to 609 BCENeo-Assyrian Empire
- 10th century BCEFounding of Arezzo
- from c. 860s BCE to 590s BCEUrartu
- from c. 818 BCE to 715 BCETwenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
- from c. 814 BCE to 146 BCEAncient Carthage
- from c. 808 BCE to 167 BCEMacedonia
- from 9th century BCE to 4th century BCEAchaemenid dynasty
- 9th century BCEConstruction of Roman Forum
- from 8th century BCE to 3rd centuryClassical antiquity
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- from 375 CE to 568 CEMigration Period
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