Following centuries of conflict with the Sicilian Greeks, its growing competition with Rome culminated in the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), which saw some of the largest and most sophisticated battles in antiquity. Carthage narrowly avoided destruction after the Second Punic War, but was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC after the Third Punic War.

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage. Three wars took place, on both land and sea, across the western Mediterranean region and involved a total of forty-three years of warfare.

2025年1月16日 · Punic Wars, (264–146 bce), a series of three wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) empire, resulting in the destruction of Carthage, the enslavement of its population, and Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean.

2020年5月29日 · Carthage was a Phoenician city-state on the coast of North Africa (the site of modern-day Tunis) which, prior the conflict with Rome known as the Punic Wars (264-146 BCE), was the largest, most affluent, and powerful political entity in the Mediterranean.

After a long conflict with the emerging Roman Republic, known as the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), Rome finally destroyed Carthage in 146 BC. A Roman Carthage was established on the ruins of the first.

2019年8月12日 · Carthage in 479–265 bce reached a size and prosperity equaling any leading Greek city-state. Despite its defeat in Sicily in 480 bce, its economic reach across the Mediterranean grew, and so did its indirect hegemony over North Africa’s coasts almost to Cyrenaica in the east and the edges of Numidia in the west.

2022年2月11日 · Much is said about the Punic wars that took place between the Roman Republic and Carthage, also known as Kart Hadasht or the city of Dido. In the years 264-146 BCE, there were three conflicts between these ancient powers which led to …

2020年5月18日 · At the time, Carthage was only a small city-state that was founded by Phoenician settlers from Tyre. This early interaction was a peaceful one, but the relationship between the Romans and the Carthaginians soon evolved into one of the most well-known rivalries in history.

The Punic Wars were fought with Rome from 265 BCE to 146 BCE. The main cause was the conflict of interest between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic. The Third Punic War began in 149 BCE, and culminated in the defeat of Carthage.

2023年10月19日 · Carthage lost control of the island of Sicily after the first war and ceded even more territory after its defeat in the second war. Rome returned to lay siege to the city of Carthage during the Third Punic War. It took three years, but Carthage finally fell and was burned to the ground by Rome.