Carthage: From Phoenician Colony to Mediterranean Power, c. 814–146 BC | Calm Bedtime History
It is dawn on the coast of North Africa, around 814 BC, and a small group of settlers from Tyre is establishing a new town beside the Gulf of Tunis. Over the next seven centuries, this harbour will become Carthage, the centre of a Phoenician-derived republic, a far-reaching trading network, and Rome’s most dangerous rival in the western Mediterranean.
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