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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70222" /> == | |||
<p> An ancient maritime city, on a peninsula in the N. of Africa, near the site of Tunis, and founded by Phoenicians in 850 B.C.; originally the centre of a colony, it became the capital of a wide-spread trading community, which even ventured to compete with, and at one time threatened, under Hannibal, to overthrow, the power of Rome, in a series of protracted struggles known as the Punic Wars, in the last of which it was taken and destroyed by [[Publius]] [[Cornelius]] Scipio in 146 B.C., after a siege of two years, though it rose again as a [[Roman]] city under the Cæsars, and became a place of great importance till burned in A.D. 698 by Hassan, the Arab; the struggle during the early part of its history was virtually a struggle for the ascendency of the Semitic people over the Aryan race in Europe. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30505" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30505" /> == | ||
<p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Carthage'. | <p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Carthage'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/carthage.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_70222"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/carthage Carthage from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_30505"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/carthage Carthage from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_30505"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/carthage Carthage from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
An ancient maritime city, on a peninsula in the N. of Africa, near the site of Tunis, and founded by Phoenicians in 850 B.C.; originally the centre of a colony, it became the capital of a wide-spread trading community, which even ventured to compete with, and at one time threatened, under Hannibal, to overthrow, the power of Rome, in a series of protracted struggles known as the Punic Wars, in the last of which it was taken and destroyed by Publius Cornelius Scipio in 146 B.C., after a siege of two years, though it rose again as a Roman city under the Cæsars, and became a place of great importance till burned in A.D. 698 by Hassan, the Arab; the struggle during the early part of its history was virtually a struggle for the ascendency of the Semitic people over the Aryan race in Europe.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Carthage'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/carthage.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
