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Engineering an Empire Carthage
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"Carthage (Latin:
Carthago
or Karthago,
Ancient Greek:
Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn,
Arabic:
قرطاج
Qarṭāj,
Berber: ⴽⴰⵔⵜⴰⵊⴻⵏ Kartajen,
Etruscan: *Carθaza, Modern
Hebrew:
קרתגו Qartágo, from the
Phoenician
Qart-ḥadašt[1]
meaning New City (Aramaic:
Qert Ḥdaša), implying it was a 'new
Tyre'[2])
is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly
3,000 years on the
Gulf of Tunis, developing from a
Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC. It
is currently a suburb of
Tunis,
Tunisia, with a population (2004 Census) of
20,715." Source:
Wikipedia
