See soorce fer Carthage

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  |caption = [[Baths o Antoninus]], Carthage
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   | designation1_date = 1979 <small>(3rd [[Warld Heritage Committee|session]])</small>
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   | designation1_criteria = ii, iii, vi
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'''Carthage''' is a major urban centre that haes existit for nearly 3,000 year on the [[Gulf o Tunis]], developin frae a [[Phoenician]] colony o the 1st millennium BC which haes gien place tae the current suburb ootside [[Tunis]], [[Tunisie]], wi a population (2004 Census) o 20,715.

The first ceevilisation that developed athin the ceety's sphere o influence is referred tae as Punic (a form o the wird "Phoenician") or Carthaginian. The ceety o Carthage is locatit on the eastren side o [[Lake Tunis]] athort frae the centre o Tunis. Accordin tae Roman legend it wis foondit in 814 BC bi [[Phoenicia]]n colonists frae Tyre unner the leadership o Elissa ([[Dido (Queen o Carthage)|Queen Dido]]). It became a muckle an rich ceety an thus a major pouer in the Mediterranean. The resultin rivalry wi [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]] an [[Ancient Rome|Rome]] wis accompanied bi several wars wi respective invasions o ilk ither's hameland. [[Hannibal]]'s invasion o Italy in the [[Seicont Punic War]] culminatit in the Carthaginian [[battle o Cannae|victory at Cannae]] an led tae a serious threat tae the continuation o Roman rule ower Italy; housomeivver, Carthage emerged frae the conflict at its historical weakest efter Hannibal's defeat at the [[Battle o Zama]] in 202 BC. Efter the [[Third Punic War]], the ceety wis destroyed bi the Romans in 146 BC. Housomeivver, the Romans refoondit Carthage, which became the Empire's third maist important ceety an the caipital o the short-lived [[Vandals#The Vandal Kinrick in North Africae|Vandal kinrick]]. It remained ane o the maist important Roman ceeties till the [[Umayyad conquest o North Africae|Muslim conquest]] whan it wis destroyed a seicont time in AD 698.

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[[Category:Razed ceeties]]
[[Category:History o North Africae]]
[[Category:Phoenicie colonies]]
[[Category:Roman steids in Tunisie]]
[[Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Tunisie]]
[[Category:African ceevilizations]]
[[Category:Auncient ceeties]]
[[Category:Umwhile populatit places in Tunisie]]
[[Category:Communes o Tunisie]]


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