Ancient Carthage: Mediterranean Superpower

Ancient History 814 BC Ancient 🇱🇾 Libya 5,437 views

Founded by Phoenician settlers around 814 BC, Carthage became the dominant commercial and naval power of the western Mediterranean before its destruction by Rome.

Foundation and RiseAccording to tradition, Carthage was founded around 814 BCE by Queen Dido (Elissa), a Phoenician princess who fled Tyre in modern Lebanon after her brother murdered her husband. The city she established on a peninsula in the Bay of Tunis — in modern Tunisia, not Libya though often...

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