Carthage

[ kahr-thij ]

noun

1. an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century b.c.; destroyed in 146 b.c. in the last of the Punic Wars.
2. a town in central Missouri.

Carthage

/ ˈkɑːθɪdʒ /

noun

1. See Punic Wars
   an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad See also Punic Wars

Carthage

1. An ancient city in north Africa , established by traders from Phoenicia . Carthage was a commercial and political rival of Rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. The Carthaginian general Hannibal attempted to capture Rome by moving an army from Spain through the Alps , but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. At the end of the Punic Wars , the Romans destroyed Carthage, as the senator Cato had long urged. The character Dido , lover of Aeneas in the Aeneid , was a queen of Carthage.

Other Words From

• Car·tha·gin·i·an [kahr-th, uh, -, jin, -ee-, uh, n], adjective noun
• pseudo-Cartha·gini·an adjective noun

Example Sentences

With a breathtaking view over the bay and the ruins of Carthage, we  could see all the way back to Tunis and the Kasbah.

From The Daily Beast

She  began studying math but switched to economics at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Commercial de Carthage.

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She was a widow hated by most of the town of Carthage, Texas.

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In a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.

From Project Gutenberg

Tanith also was a noted female deity, and was worshipped at Carthage and Cyprus by the Phoenician settlers.

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Soon after his marriage he accompanied Scipio to Carthage, where he was the first to scale the walls.

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Carthage was completely destroyed, and Africa became a Roman province.

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The scholars of Carthage were anything but sober, industrious, modest, and orderly youths.

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