Carthage was one of the great cities and preeminent powers of antiquity, founded by Dido, a princess of Tyre, in the 9th century bce. It fought a series of wars with Rome, ultimately losing in the mid-2nd century bce. Carthage was then razed, and Rome ruled the region for 500 years.
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