Geographic HistoryMap of Carthage
On the Geographic History map, Carthage appears from 467 BC to 146 BC. It reaches its largest mapped extent in 213 BC: about 640 thousand km² across 30 provinces.
Carthage was founded by Phoenician settlers from Tyre on the coast of modern Tunisia, by tradition in 814 BC. It built a trading empire across North Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia and western Sicily, and fought Rome in the three Punic Wars, including Hannibal's march over the Alps. Rome destroyed the city in 146 BC.
Mapped area over time
Carthage on the world maps
Largest other states in 213 BC
| State | Mapped area |
|---|---|
| Maurya Empire | 3.4 million km² |
| Seleucid Empire | 2.4 million km² |
| Qin | 2 million km² |
| Ptolemaic Kingdom | 1.2 million km² |
| Greco Baktria | 630 thousand km² |
| Yuezhi | 620 thousand km² |
| Parthia | 570 thousand km² |
| Chin | 550 thousand km² |
About this map
Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.
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