By 300 BC, through its vast patchwork of colonies, vassals, and satellite states, held together by its naval dominance of the western and central Mediterranean Sea, Carthage controlled the largest territory in the region, including the coast of northwestern Africa, southern and eastern Iberia, and the islands of Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta ...

Carthage is some 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) east-northeast of Tunis; the settlements nearest to Carthage were the town of Sidi Bou Said to the north and the village of Le Kram to the south. Sidi Bou Said was a village which had grown around the tomb of the eponymous sufi saint (d. 1231), which had been developed into a town under Ottoman rule in ...

2022年11月5日 · Carthage was the center of a mighty maritime power in the Mediterranean from 814 BC to 146 BC. A major trade center, Carthage soon went into war with Rome over Sicily. The three Punic Wars ultimately destroyed the city and its civilization.

These two maps cover most of modern Tunisia and the extreme east of Algeria. From 200 B.C. at the latest, control of this area was divided between Punic Carthage (mainly northern and eastern Tunisia), and the kingdom of Numidia (western Tunisia and eastern Algeria).

Map of A map of Rome and Carthage during the First Punic War (264–241 BC). This map is color–coded to show the extent of the Roman Empire in yellow and the Carthaginian territory in pink.

The Carthaginian territories included the northern African territories of Mauretania, Numidia, Byzacium, and Libya, the Balearic Islands, and the southern coastal area of Iberia near Gades (Cadiz) and Gibraltar. This map shows important cities and rivers of the time.

Explore the historic rivalry between Carthage and Rome in the ancient Mediterranean. Discover the causes, battles, and consequences of the Punic Wars that shaped the course of Western civilization.

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.

This map is color–coded to show the extent of the Roman Empire in yellow and the Carthaginian territory in pink. At this time, the Roman Empire was primarily restricted to the central and southern Italian Peninsula, and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.

A map of the middle of the Mediterranean Sea Roman theatre, in Carthage. Carthage was an ancient city-state in what is now Tunisia. It began as a Phoenician colony. [1] At the height of its power, Carthage was the most important power in the Mediterranean and controlled parts of Spain, as well as Sicily, North Africa, and Sardinia.