Carthage, founded by the Phoenicians of the …
Years: 585BCE - 574BCE
Carthage, founded by the Phoenicians of the Eastern Mediterranean but now only nominally under Tyrean control, becomes the Phoenicians' largest western colony after 580, because of its fine harbor and central location for western trade.
It has begun to expand throughout the western Mediterranean, colonizing western Sicily and parts of North Africa, Sardinia, the Balearics and Spain.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Phoenician colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
