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/ˈkɑɹθədʒ, ˈkɑɹθɪdʒ/
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NOUN
- an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697
How To Use Carthage In A Sentence
- Recently—too recently for the information to be included in "Carthage Must Be Destroyed"—the site of the Battle of Baecula in 208 B.C., where Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian army under Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, was discovered in Spain. An Empire of the Mediterranean
- The following brief passage mentions the Sicilian Greek city of Segesta's alliance with Carthage against the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Girgenti) in 409 B.C., then briefly describes who bears most responsibility for the destruction of Sicily's Greek architecture. Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
- I also have hypothetical roots deduced by analysing word etymologies in my database, such as *Carθaza "Carthage" ascertained from the attested name Karθazie whose context lies in TLE 724, but I decided to leave this all out for now. Etruscan Glossary (Draft 001 available for Free Download)
- Timaeus did not restrict his treatment to Sicily but dealt with the whole west including Carthage.
- The play opens on the deck of a ship that is sailing from the north African city of Carthage to the Italian city of Naples.
- Those efforts mostly failed and the GOP retained its majority, but the unions feel about Mr. Walker the way Cato the Elder felt about Carthage: Walker delenda est, Scott Walker must be destroyed. Big Labor's Wisconsin Vendetta
- The western amphoras suggest that Corinth's ties with Italy resurge in the middle of the century, and it is tempting to suggest that the Vandal conquest of Carthage diverted routes northward.
- A new thermal depolymerization plant in Carthage, MO that converts turkey waste into oil products smells really BAD. Archive 2006-01-29
- Today, revisiting the life of the town’s most celebrated citizen, the word Carthage sounds prophetic: to those who are familiar with her life, it seems apt that Virginia Cherrill should have emerged from a place connected by its name to the beautiful Queen Dido. Chaplin’s Girl
- As the Roman Republic after the defeat of Carthage so, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, US supremacy is unchallenged.