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  Carthage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carthage (from the Phoenician Qart-Hadasht "New City" (written without vowels as QRT HDÅ T), was an ancient city in North Africa located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis, across from the center of modern Tunis in Tunisia.
Carthage under the Phoenicians was notorious to its neighbors for child sacrifice.
In 397 at the Council at Carthage, the Biblical canon for the western Church was confirmed.
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 Carthage - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carthage (from the Phoenician Kart-Hadasht, the "New City", written without vowels in Punic as Qrthdst), was a city in north Africa located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis, across from the center ofmodern Tunis in Tunisia.
By the beginning of the 5th century BC, Carthage was the commercialcenter of the region (a position it would retain until overthrown by the Roman Republic).
Carthage was weakened severely by the loss, and the old government of entrenched nobility wasousted to be replaced by the Carthaginian Republic.
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This imminent threat could not be ignored, and Carthage -- possibly as part of an alliance with Persia, then engaged in a war with Greece -- fielded its largest military force to date under the leadership of the general Hamilcar.
Carthage was weakened severely by the loss, and the old government of entrenched nobility was ousted to be replaced by the Carthaginian Republic.
The political fallout from the deep disaffection of African Christians was a crucial factor in the ease with which Carthage and the other centers were captured in the 5th century by Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, who defeated the Byzantine general Bonifatius and made the city his capital.
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Following the end of the war, Hannibal led Carthage for several years, helping it to recover from the devastation of the war,until the Romans forced him into exile in 195 BC.
Carthage at the time was in such a poorstate that he had to march his army to the Pillars ofHercules and cross to Spain from there.
First he journeyed to Tyre, the mother-cityof Carthage, and thence to Ephesus, where he was honorably received by Antiochus III of Syria, who was then preparing for war with Rome.
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Carthage (from the Phoenician Kart-Hadasht, the "New City", written without vowels in Punic as Qrthdst), was an ancient city in north Africa located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis, across from the center of modern Tunis in Tunisia.
Although, in that year, the Iberian colonies seceded—cutting off Carthage's major supply of silver and copper — Hannibal Mago, the grandson of Hamilcar, began preparations to reclaim Sicily, while expeditions were also led into Morocco and Senegal, and also into the Atlantic.
The political fallout from the deep disaffection of African Christians was a crucial factor in the ease with which Carthage and the other centres were captured in the 5th century by Gaiseric, king of the Vandals, who defeated the Byzantine general Bonifatius and made the city his capital.
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Remembrance of the story of the bull's hide and the foundation of Carthage is preserved in mathematics in connection with the Isoperimetric problem which is sometimes called Dido's Problem (and similarly theIsoperimetric theorem is sometimes called Dido's Theorem).
Carthage was republican Rome's greatest rival and enemy and Virgil's Dido in part symbolises this.
The cult of Tanit survived beyond Carthage's destruction by Romans, and it was introduced to Rome itself by Emperor SeptimiusSeverus, himself born in North Africa.
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 Encyclopedia: Carthage (disambiguation)
Carthage is the name of a number of places:
Carthage or cartage is a synonym for the cost of freighting goods.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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Carthage Airport in Tunis Tunis is the capital of Tunisia.
Carthage is also the name of at least two saints General definition of saint In general, the term Saint refers to someone who is exceptionally virtuous and holy.
Saint Carthage the Elder Saint Carthage the Elder (or Carthach) was an Irish bishop and abbot in the sixth century.
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The early trading empire of Carthage depended heavily on its trade with Tartessos and other cities of the Iberian peninsula, from which it obtained vast quantities of Silver and, even more importantly, of tin ore, which was so important to the manufacture of bronze objects, by all the civilizations of antiquity.
Carthage was following trade routes already established by the parent city, Tyre.
Although, in that year, the Iberian colonies seceded - cutting off Carthage s major supply of silver and copper - Hannibal Mago, the grandson of Hamilcar, began preparations to reclaim Sicily, while expeditions were also led into to Morocco and Senegal, and also into the Atlantic.
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Carthage is also the name of at least two saints :
Saint Carthage the Elder, also known as Saint Carthach
His pupil, Saint Carthage the Younger, also know as Saint Mochuda
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It had conquered much of modern day Tunisia, strengthened and founded new colonies in North Africa, and sponsored Mago Barca's journey across the Sahara Desert and Hanno the Navigator's journey down the African coast (possibly passing the Cape of Good Hope).
However, soon afterwards they began negotiating with Hiero II; alarmed, the Mamertines sent another embassy to Rome asking them to expel the Carthaginians.
During Byzantine emperor Maurice I's reign, Carthage was made into an Exarchate, as was Ravenna in Italy.
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 Carthage (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The ancient city-state of (An ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697) Carthage
Carthage is also the name of at least two (A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization) saints :
Carthage or cartage is a synonym for the cost of (Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates) freight ing goods.
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---- '''Carthage''' is also the name of at least two saints : * Carthage the Elder Saint Carthage the Elder, also known as Saint Carthach *His pupil, Saint Carthage the Younger, also know as Mochuda Saint Mochuda
---- '''Carthage''' or '''cartage''' is a synonym for the cost of freight ing goods.
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