This item can be found on the following maps:
Theatre | Caesar | Christianity | Africa | Wine | | Coloniae | Africa | Etrusci, Etruria | Commerce | Colonization | Limes | Limes | Pertinax | Phoenicians, Poeni | Pilgrimage | Punic Wars | Punic Wars | Rome | Rome
(Phoenician Qrt-ḥdšt, ‘new town’; Greek Καρχηδών/Karchēdṓn, Lat. Carthago).
I. History
A. From Phoenician foundation to Roman colony
According to Timaeus' report (FGrH 566 F 60), C. was founded in 814/13 or 813/2 BC -- on the site of Tunis' modern subur…