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Carthage (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 36 51 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.8500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 010 20 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 10.3333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Famed ancient city on Gulf of Tunis; center of powerful state that conquered Sardinia, Malta, and Balearic Islands in the 6th century BCE; battled Rome in 100-year Punic Wars; ruined by Rome in 146 BCE, but rebuilt as a Roman city; rebuilt by Vandals, ruined by Arabs in 698. |
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| Carthage (preferred,C,V,S)
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| Karthago (C,O)
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| Cartagine (C,O,Italian-P,U,N)
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| Qarṭājannah (C,V)
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| Carthago (C,V,Latin-P,U,N)
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............ | Roman |
| Colonia Julia Carthago (C,V,Latin,U,N)
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............ | Roman, from 29 BCE |
| Qarthadasht (C,V)
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| Kart-Hadasht (C,V)
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| Kart-hadasht (C,V)
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............ | Phoenician |
| Quart Hadasha (C,V)
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| Kart Hadash (C,V)
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| Karchedon (C,V)
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| Karth-Hadtha (C,V)
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| Qart-ḥadašt (C,V,Phoenician,U)
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| Carchēdo (C,V)
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| Καρχηδών (C,V,Ancient Greek,U)
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| Karkhēdōn (C,V,Ancient Greek (transliterated),U)
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| קרתא חדתא (C,V,Aramaic,U)
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| Qarta Ḥdatha (C,V)
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| Carθaza (C,V,Etruscan,U)
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Tunis (governorate) (P) |
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Carthage (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Africa (province) (P,H) from 146 BCE |
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Place Types: |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| city-state (H) |
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traditionally founded in 814 BCE by Phoenicians of Tyre; declined some centuries after destruction by Arabs in 698 |
| inhabited place (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Carthaginian Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
| .................. |
(World) [7594123] |
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