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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 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 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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    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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    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 Sicilian Wars, or Greco-Punic Wars, were a series of conflicts fought between ancient Carthage and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse over control...
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    Look up Punic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a...
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    After a long conflict with the emerging Roman Republic, known as the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), Rome finally destroyed Carthage in 146 BC. A Roman Carthage...
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    cause of war with Carthage breaking out again in 218 BC in the Second Punic War. The main source for almost every aspect of the Punic Wars is the historian...
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    since the Punic Wars. Initially, Rome mediated a division of the country. But Jugurtha renewed his offensive, leading to a long and inconclusive war with Rome...
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  • Carthage and Rome fought several major protracted conflicts known as the Punic Wars, the last of which resulted in the complete and total destruction of the...
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    Ancient Carthage (category Articles containing Punic-language text)
    major power led by the Punic people who dominated the ancient western and central Mediterranean Sea. Following the Punic Wars, Carthage was destroyed...
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    Mediterranean after the Punic Wars. Traditionally, the "Macedonian Wars" include the four wars with Macedonia, in addition to one war with the Seleucid Empire...
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  • The Pubic Wars, a pun on the Punic Wars, was a rivalry between the American men's magazines Playboy and Penthouse during the 1960s and 1970s. Each magazine...
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    Hannibal (category Carthaginian commanders of the Second Punic War)
    Republic during the Second Punic War. Hannibal's father, Hamilcar Barca, was a leading Carthaginian general during the First Punic War. His younger brothers...
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    Caspari, Maximilian Otto Bismarck (1911). "Punic Wars § The Interval between the First and Second Wars" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    efforts of the Romans to construct a war fleet were based on copies of Carthaginian warships. In the Punic wars in the mid-third century BCE, the Romans...
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  • Republic and the later Roman Empire. The Punic Wars. The old constitution of Carthage, before the First Punic War, was described by Aristotle as a mixture...
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    century, famously sacking Rome circa 390 BC. Following the Samnite Wars and the Punic Wars, in which Gallic forces sometimes made common cause with Rome's...
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  • discipline, war elephants were rarely used. While the Romans did eventually adopt them, and used them occasionally after the Punic wars, especially during...
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  • Battle of Zama (category Battles of the Second Punic War)
    Carthaginian army commanded by Hannibal. The battle was part of the Second Punic War and resulted in such a severe defeat for the Carthaginians that they capitulated...
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  • expanding it. This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include...
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  • and allowed the vessels to become better built. The Punic Wars are some of the most notorious wars in history, and the naval vessels and tactics used in...
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    Cirta)and the Masaesyli in the west (Capital: Siga). During the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), Masinissa, king of the Massylii, defeated Syphax of the...
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  • Carthaginian peace (category Third Punic War)
    Carthaginian Empire by the Roman Republic following the Punic Wars. After the Second Punic War, Carthage lost all its colonies, was forced to demilitarize...
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    The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety...
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    (1995), The Beginnings of Rome – Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC), New York: Routledge, 1995, ISBN 978-0-415-01596-7 Ross...
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  • Punic Wars content pack". PCGamesN. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 20 February 2021. Calise, Drew (10 December 2019). "Imperator: Rome Livy Patch/Punic Wars...
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    Calabria (section Punic Wars)
    southern Italy by means of treaties with the cities. During the Second Punic War (218–201 BC) the Bruttii allied with Hannibal, who sent Hanno, one of...
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    Battle of Lake Trasimene (category Battles of the Second Punic War)
    Second Punic War. The battle took place on the north shore of Lake Trasimene, to the south of Cortona, and resulted in a heavy defeat for the Romans. War had...
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