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Carthage, which considers itself the dominant naval …

Years: 273BCE - 262BCE

Carthage, which considers itself the dominant naval power in the western Mediterranean, had originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and has gradually become the center of a civilization whose hegemony reaches along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also includes the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.

The conflict known as the First Punic War begins in 264 BCE, after both Rome and Carthage intervene in Messana, the Sicilian city closest to the Italian peninsula.

In this first of three wars fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic, the two powers will struggle for twenty years for supremacy in the western Mediterranean Sea, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters but also to a lesser extent North Africa.

Carthage, located in what is today Tunisia, is the dominant Western Mediterranean power at the beginning of the conflicts.

The series of wars between Rome and Carthage are known to the Romans as the "Punic Wars" because of the Latin name for the Carthaginians: Punici, derived from Phoenici.

The Punici (from Latin punicus, pl. punici) are a group of western Semitic-speaking peoples from Carthage in North Africa who trace their origins to a group of Phoenician settlers, but also to North African Berbers.

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