Carthage (269-202 av. J. - C.)
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Carthage in Phoenician Qart Hadasht “new City”. Carthage was, between VIIe and IIe front century J. - C., the most powerful maritime metropolis of the Mediterranean. It outclassed Greece of the traditional age in maritime forwardings and the domination of the Western and central Mediterranean disputed to him.
Destroyed in 146 av. J. - C., at the end of the Punic Wars, it was attached to Rome, was rebuilt, and became, under Auguste, the most prosperous city of Africa. Conquered by the Vandals in Ve century, it passed, into 534, under the Byzantine domination, but was shaven by the Arabs into 698.