Polity Carthage (Phoenician)

This article is about the specific polity Carthage (Phoenician) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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A city-state in North Africa originated as a colony of the Phoenicians. It later became an Empire.

Establishment

  • January 813 BC: Settlement of Carthage, a Tyrian colony (c. 814 BC).

Chronology

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Disestablishment

  • January 649 BC: Carthage most likely became independent around 650 BC.