carthage cafe

History of Carthage Cafe

Carthage ( Karchedon, from the Phoenician Kart-hadasht

meaning new town, Latin: Carthago) refers both to an ancient

city in North Africa located in modern day Tunis and to the

civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence.

The city of Carthage was located on the eastern side of Lake

Tunis across from the center of modern Tunis in Tunisia.

Originally a settlement of Phoenician colonists, Carthage grew

into a vast economic and political power throughout the

Mediterranean Sea, accumulating wealth and influence through

its economic (trading) prowess. Carthage was a major power of the Mediterranean,

contemporaneously with the Roman Republic of the 3rd and 2nd century BC, and was its rival for

dominance of the western Mediterranean. Eventually this rivalry led to a series of three wars known

as the Punic Wars, each of which Carthage lost. These losses led to a decline in Carthage's political

and economic strength, mostly due to the harsh penalties imposed on Carthage by Rome as

conditions for the cessation of hostilities. The Third Punic War ended with the complete destruction

of the city of Carthage and the annexation of the last remnants of Carthaginian territory by Rome.

Distinct Carthaginian civilization ceased to exist, but remnants contributed to later Mediterranean

cultures.

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