Carthage: All Data
Carthage is a city in Tunisia. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Tunis: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
813 BC
Capital of Carthage (Phoenician)
649 BC
Capital of Carthage
309 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of White Tunis, part of Seventh Sicilian War
255 BC
Mentioned in Event: First Punic War
255 BC
Mentioned in: Battle of Tunis, part of First Punic War
149 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Carthage, part of Third Punic War
46 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
45 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
238 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Carthage (238)
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
306 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
308 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
309 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
312 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
314 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
351 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
400 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Prafecture of Africa, part of Western Roman Empire
439 AD
Mentioned in Event: Vandal occupation of Carthage
439 AD
Capital of Kingdom of the Vandals
533 AD
Mentioned in Event: Vandalic War
533 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Ad Decimum, part of Vandalic War
533 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Tricamarum, part of Vandalic War
537 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Scalas Veteres, part of Byzantine-Moorish wars
696 AD
Mentioned in Event: Third Muslim Invasion of the Maghreb
698 AD
Mentioned in Event: Third Muslim Invasion of the Maghreb
699 AD
Mentioned in Event: Third Muslim Invasion of the Maghreb
699 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Carthage (698), part of Third Muslim Invasion of the Maghreb
1060 AD
Capital of Khurasanid Dynasty
1149 AD
Mentioned in Event: Military campaign of Roger II of Sicily in Africa
1230 AD
Capital of Hafsid Kingdom
1270 AD
Mentioned in Event: Eighth Crusade
1535 AD
Mentioned in: Conquest of Tunis (1535)
1535 AD
Capital of Hafsid Kingdom (Spain)
1535 AD
Capital of Tunis
1570 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquests of Selim II
1574 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Tunis (1574)
1574 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ottoman-Venetian War (1570-1573)
1574 AD
Mentioned in: Conquest of Tunis (1574)
1609 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Eyalet of Tunis, part of Ottoman Empire
1694 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Tunis
1881 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of Tunisia
1881 AD
Capital of French Tunisia
1940 AD
Mentioned in Event: World War II (All other Vichy France Colonies)
1940 AD
Capital of French Tunisia (Vichy France)
1943 AD
Mentioned in Event: Tunisian campaign
1956 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Tunisia
1960 AD
Capital of Republic of Tunisia
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Governatorate of Tunis Governorate, part of Republic of Tunisia