Byrsa was a walled citadel above the Phoenician harbour in ancient Carthage, Tunisia, as well as the name of the hill it rested on. In Virgil's account...
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operations on the Byrsa, circa 25 BC, to prepare for new construction), 426 (Temple of Eshmun), 443 (Byrsa diagram, circa 1859). The Byrsa had been destroyed...
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for the ancient children's cemetery where it stands), Carthage Byrsa (named for Byrsa hill), Carthage Dermech (Dermèche), Carthage Hannibal (named for...
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Oxycanus byrsa is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It is found in New South Wales. Nielsen, Ebbe S.; Robinson, Gaden S.; Wagner, David L. (2000). "Ghost-moths...
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church located in Carthage, Tunisia. The cathedral sits on the peak of Byrsa Hill, near the ruins of the ancient Punic and then Roman city. It was built...
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St. Louis Cathedral on the Byrsa hill at Carthage...
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city's agora, or even in some cases in the temple of Eshmoun on the hill of Byrsa. He was responsible for all city affairs: political and administrative matters...
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la dir.] Byrsa I. Mission archéologique française à Carthage, éd. INAA, Tunis / éd. École française de Rome, Rome, 1979 [sous la dir.] Byrsa II. Mission...
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to encircle an entire nearby hill, which was therefore afterwards named Byrsa ("hide"). (This event is commemorated in modern mathematics: The "isoperimetric...
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envisage a mausoleum and a 17-metre (56 ft) high colossus of Hannibal on the Byrsa, the highest point of Carthage overlooking Tunis. The teenaged Sigmund Freud...
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excavated from a Punic tomb in Tunisia. The lineage of this "Young Man of Byrsa" is believed to represent early gene flow from Iberia to the Maghreb. According...
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Location of the Circus of Carthage, with the Byrsa hill in the background....
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Peoples. The city of Carthage initially covered the area around a hill called Byrsa, paid an annual tribute to the nearby Libyan tribes, and may have been ruled...
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or pouch (from the Latin bursa, which in turn is from the Greek βύρσα, býrsa, oxhide), sometimes called coin purse for clarity, is a small money bag...
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Bey of Tunis to the King of France in 1830. The chapel was located atop Byrsa Hill, at the heart of the Archaeological Site of Carthage, until it was...
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public buildings were renovated. The political centre of Carthage was the Byrsa Hill. New industrial centres emerged within towns during this period. Historian...
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National Museum (Arabic: المتحف الوطني بقرطاج) is a national museum in Byrsa, Tunisia. Along with the Bardo National Museum, it is one of the two main...
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000 years ago. Found in a Phoenician individual from a Carthage tomb in Byrsa Hill, Tunisia. U5b3: The subclade likely originates in the Italian peninsula;...
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the people's existence. In 1994, a Punic burial crypt was discovered on Byrsa Hill, near the entry to the National Museum of Carthage in Tunisia. Inside...
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strips and lays them end to end until they encircle the entire hill of Byrsa. While digging to set the foundation of their new settlement, the Tyrians...
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basilica built outside Rome was that built under the Antonine dynasty on the Byrsa hill in Carthage. The basilica was built together with a forum of enormous...
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Lancel, "Les Pavimenta Punica du quartier punique tardif de la colline de Byrsa," Cahiers des etudes anciennes 17 (1985) 157-77. For the signinum floors...
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"Cor-Ai" Mario Azzopardi Tom J. Astle January 23, 1998 (1998-01-23) The Byrsa, human inhabitants of the planet Cartago (P3X-1279) that was once enslaved...
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Vladimir Bîrsa (redirect from Vladimir Byrsa)
Vladimir Bîrsa (born 22 April 1972) is a Moldovan male weightlifter, competing in the 77 kg category and representing Moldova at international competitions...
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the Imperial cult of ancient Rome, which was discovered on the slopes of Byrsa hill above the port of the ancient city of Carthage (modern Tunis). It is...
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century or the beginning of the 2nd century, to the west of the hill of Byrsa. An inscription date certifies that it was in service from 133–139 C.E....
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some public buildings were renovated. The political centre of Carthage was Byrsa Hill. New industrial centres emerged in towns during this period. Historian...
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The ancient Greeks made use of leather, papyrus and linen purses known as byrsa to store coins, which is the etymological origin of the English word "purse"...
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