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Founding of Carthage
Around 814 BCE, colonists from Phoenician city-states such as Tyre founded Carthage on the North African coast, which quickly developed into an indep…
Timeline
- c. -814Gulf of Carthage · TunisiaAccording to the Tyrian tradition, the colonial leader Dido (Elissa) led Phoenician migrants to select a harbor on the North African coast, built the city, constructed the port and defenses, and established a city-state governing structure.
- c. -750Carthage · TunisiaCarthage gradually broke free from the direct control of its mother city Tyre, developing its own currency, fleet, and overseas colonial network, and became the foremost commercial and maritime power in the western Mediterranean.
Sources
- Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization — Richard Miles (2010)
- The Phoenicians and the West — Maria Eugenia Aubet (2001)