Carthage was originally founded as a colony of Phoenicia. Eventually, through treaties and expansion as well as by extending its trading alliances around the Mediterranean, Carthage grew into a power that rivaled Rome for supremacy. In the aftermath of losing the Third Punic War, the Romans destroyed Carthage, eventually refounding it as a Roman city.
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