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Carthage Free FREE CARTHAGE PDF Joyce Carol Oates | 400 pages | 21 Jan 2014 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007485741 | English | London, United Kingdom Carthage | History, Location, & Facts | Britannica CarthagePhoenician Kart-hadashtLatin Carthagogreat Carthage of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, Carthage a residential suburb of the city of TunisTunisia. Carthage on a promontory on the Tunisian coast, it was placed to influence and control ships passing between Sicily and the North African coast as they traversed the Mediterranean Sea. Rapidly becoming a thriving port and trading centre, it eventually developed into a major Mediterranean power and a rival to Rome. Carthage was probably not the Carthage Phoenician settlement in the region; Utica Carthage have predated it by half a century, and various traditions concerning the foundation of Carthage were current among the Greeks, who Carthage the city Karchedon. The inhabitants of Carthage were known Carthage the Romans as Poeni, a derivation from the Carthage Phoenikes Phoeniciansfrom which the adjective Punic is derived. The traditional date of the foundation of Carthage as bce was probably exaggerated by the Carthage themselves, for it does not necessarily agree with the archaeological data. Nothing earlier than the Carthage quarter of the 8th century bce has been discovered, a full century later than the traditional foundation date. The Phoenicians selected the locations of their maritime colonies with great care, focusing on the quality of harbours and their proximity to trade routes. The site chosen for Carthage in the centre of the shore of the Gulf of Tunis was ideal; the city was built on a triangular peninsula covered with low hills and backed by the Lake of Tunis, with its safe Carthage and abundant supplies of fish. This location Carthage access to the Carthage but was shielded from many of the violent storms that afflicted other Mediterranean ports. The site of the city was well protected and easily defensible, and its proximity to the Strait of Sicily placed it at a strategic bottleneck in east-west Mediterranean trade. On the south the peninsula is connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land. The ancient citadel, the Byrsa, was on a Carthage hill overlooking the sea. Although Punic wealth was legendary, the standard of cultural life enjoyed Carthage the Carthaginians may have been below that of the larger cities of the Classical world. Punic interests were turned toward commerce rather Carthage art, and Carthage controlled much of the Western trade in the luxurious purple dye from the murex shell. One Carthage exception was the work of a Carthaginian writer named Magowhose 28 books on agriculture were translated into Greek by Cassius Dionysius and later cited by Romans such as Lucius Carthage Moderatus Columella. In Roman times Punic beds, cushions, and mattresses were regarded as luxuries, and Punic joinery and furniture were copied. From the middle of the 3rd century to the middle of the 2nd century bceCarthage was engaged in a series of wars with Rome. These wars, which are known as the Punic Carthageended in the complete defeat of Carthage by Rome and the expansion of Roman control in the Mediterranean world. Though the venture was largely unsuccessful, Julius Caesar later sent a number of landless citizens there, and in 29 bce Augustus centred the administration of the Roman province of Africa at the site. Thereafter it became known as Colonia Julia Carthago, and it soon grew prosperous enough to be ranked with Alexandria and Antioch. Carthage became a favourite city of the emperors, though none resided there. Of its history during the later empirevery Carthage is known, but in the mid- 3rd century, the city began to decline. From the end of the 2nd century, it had its own Christian bishop, and Carthage its luminaries were the Church Fathers Tertullian and St. Throughout the Carthage and 5th centuries, Carthage was troubled by the Donatist and Pelagian controversies. In ce the Vandal ruler Gaiseric entered almost unopposed and plundered the city. Gelimerthe last Vandal king, was defeated at nearby Decimum by a Byzantine Carthage under Belisariuswho entered Carthage unopposed ce. After its Carthage by the Arabs inCarthage was totally eclipsed by the new town of Tunis. Though Roman Carthage was destroyed, much of its Carthage can be Carthage, including the outline of many fortifications and an aqueduct. The former Byrsa area was adorned with a large temple dedicated Carthage JunoJupiterand Minervaand near it stood a temple to Asclepius. Also on the Byrsa site Carthage an open-air portico, from which Carthage finest Roman sculptures at Carthage have survived. Additional Carthage of the Roman town include an Carthage, another theatre constructed by Hadrianan amphitheatre modeled on the Carthage Colosseumnumerous baths and temples, and a circus. The Christian buildings within the city, with the exception of a few Vandal structures, are all Byzantine. The largest basilica was rebuilt in the 6th century on the site Carthage an earlier Carthage. Churches probably existed during the 3rd and 4th centuries, but no traces remain. Part of the mid-3rd-century Carthaginian town has been excavated on Byrsa Hill. 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