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Carthago: In Brief
 
 

Common Name: Carthage
Modern Name: Carthage, Tunisia



Carthago was a Settlement. Carthage was strategically located on the coast in the sheltered Gulf of Tunis, a few miles N.E. from modern Tunis, and near a peninsula projecting eastwards into the Mediterranean.

 
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