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    The Carthage Punic Ports were the old ports of the city of Carthage that were in operation during ancient times. Carthage was first and foremost a thalassocracy...
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    Ancient Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/ KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially...
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    the line of the Greek East and Latin West. The largest Punic settlement was Ancient Carthage, but there were 300 other settlements along the North African...
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  • the Numidian War (114 BC – 104 BC) Punics and bearers of Punic names were among the Roman enemies. Carthage Punic Ports Lanning, Michael Lee, “The Military...
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    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...
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    The Third Punic War (149–146 BC) was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between Carthage and Rome. The war was fought entirely within Carthaginian...
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    civilisation of Ancient Carthage and later Roman Carthage. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic empire which dominated...
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    The siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War fought between Carthage and Rome. It consisted of the nearly-three-year siege of...
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    The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in...
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    the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), Rome finally destroyed Carthage in 146 BC. A Roman Carthage was established on the ruins of the first. Roman Carthage was...
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    Punic: 𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋, romanized: Ḥannībaʿl; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in...
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    located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet, a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", contains a large...
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  • The Battle of the Port of Carthage was a naval battle of the Third Punic War fought in 147 BC between the Carthaginians and the Roman Republic. In the...
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    The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the...
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    Rome portal Hippodrome – a Greek arena also used for chariot racing Carthage Punic Ports Humphrey, J.H. (1986). Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing...
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    Truceless War, was a mutiny by troops that were employed by Carthage at the end of the First Punic War (264–241 BC), supported by uprisings of African settlements...
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  • Battle of Zama (category Battles of the Second Punic War)
    Thereafter, it was clear that Carthage was politically subordinate to Rome. The main source for almost every aspect of the Punic Wars is the historian Polybius...
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  • Hamilcar Barca (category Articles containing Punic-language text)
    the First Punic War. He kept his army intact and led a successful guerrilla war against the Romans in Sicily. Hamilcar retired to Carthage after the peace...
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    The constitution of Carthage is the political regime of the city in Punic times. Carthage's political system has been the subject of much debate, as Aristotle's...
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  • Battle of Oroscopa (category Wars involving Carthage)
    defeat. When the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage ended in 201 BC, one of the terms of the peace treaty prohibited Carthage from waging war without...
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  • the Second Punic War broke out between Rome and Carthage in 218 BC, much of Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) was controlled by Carthage or its allies...
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    The Marsala Punic shipwreck is a third-century-BC shipwreck of two Punic ships. The wreck was discovered in 1969, off the shore of Isola Lunga, not far...
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    During the first part of the Second Punic War, the eastern Massylii, under their king Gala, were allied with Carthage, while the western Masaesyli, under...
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    Baal Hammon (category Articles containing Punic-language text)
    Ḥamon (Phoenician and Punic: 𐤁𐤏𐤋 𐤇𐤌𐤍, romanized: Baʿl Ḥamōn), meaning "Lord Hammon", was the chief god of ancient Carthage. He was a weather god...
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  • Fronda, Michael P. (2010-06-10). Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy during the Second Punic War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37, 39–40. ISBN 9781139488624...
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  • between Rome and Carthage was one of tolerance for centuries. Carthage and Rome also concluded two treaties to end the First and the Second Punic Wars in 241...
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    Cothon (category Ports and harbours)
    vessel') is an artificial, protected inner harbour such as that in Carthage during the Punic Wars c. 200 BC. Cothons were generally found in the Phoenician...
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    Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC) (category Battles of the First Punic War)
    years into the First Punic War. The previous year, the newly constructed Roman navy established naval superiority over Carthage. The Romans used this...
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    Battle of the Great Plains (category Battles of the Second Punic War)
    the Second Punic War and resulted in a heavy defeat for Carthage. In the wake of its defeat in the First Punic War (264–241 BC) Carthage expanded its...
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    Battle of Agrigentum (category Battles of the First Punic War)
    the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between Carthage and the Roman Republic. The battle was...
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