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Ancient Carthage
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Phoenician city-state and empire
Ancient Carthage was a powerful city-state and empire founded by Phoenicians in North Africa that became one of the Mediterranean's dominant trading and military powers. It matters historically because of its major conflicts with Rome, particularly the Punic Wars, which shaped the course of Western civilization and ultimately determined whether Rome or Carthage would control the Mediterranean world.
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It sits within the topics 140s BC, 1st millennium BC and Ancient Greek geography of North Africa.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- empire
- Participant in
- Punic Wars
- Continent
- Africa
- Capital
- Carthage
- Official language
- Punic
- Currency
- Carthaginian currency
- Population
- 400000
- Form of government
- oligarchy
- Founded by
- Dido
- Followed by
- Mauretania
- Follows
- Phoenicia
- Image
- Tanit Symbol.svg
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- different from
- Carthage
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0146-00-00
- Commons category
- Carthaginian civilization
- topic's main category
- Category:Carthaginian civilization
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 0814-00-00
- language used
- Punic
- office held by head of state
- Shophet
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕
- replaced by
- Africa
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