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Close ✕Carthage
Rome's principal Mediterranean rival, destroyed at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BCE and refounded as a Roman colony under Caesar and Augustus.
36.9, 10.3 · approximate · Phoenician foundation traditionally 814 BCE; destroyed 146 BCE; Roman colonia refounded 29 BCE; captured by the Vandals 439 CE; Byzantine to 698 CE
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- A place in: Roman Empire · 7 places
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- is transforms of Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana) — Carthage was annihilated in 146 BCE and refounded as a Roman colonia, and within two centuries African provincials were consuls and emperors. Citizenship converted a defeated rival into a supplier of the empire's own elite.
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