Places with History: Carthage, in Tunisia
Today we offer another trip through history, this time to find out which one of the greatest civilizations in human history and became the major economic power in the Mediterranean. It was founded by the Phoenicians in the thirteenth century BC under the name qart Haddast, a city that hardly began with an area of 50 km2, and over the centuries came to be a metropolitan area to 30,000 km2. The Carthaginian Empire was spread throughout the Mediterranean, with bases across northern Africa to Spain and across Ibiza and Sicily. (más…)