Carthage in 431 B.C.

Carthage — Phoenician Carthage · Dominant Western Mediterranean Power.

Interactive map of Carthage in 431 B.C. Founded by Phoenician colonists from Tyre around 814 B.C., by 431 B.C. Carthage was the dominant commercial and naval power of the western Mediterranean. Its sphere extended from its African heartland in modern Tunisia across direct holdings in Sardinia, western Sicily (the Epikrateia), the Pityusic Islands, and Malta — and over a network of older Phoenician city-states stretching from Tripolitania to Mauretania and the Atlantic coast of Iberia. Explore the map of Carthage, its direct territorial regions, and its subject Phoenician colonies.