Hadrumetum was a Phoenician colony earlier than A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ...Carthage, and was already an important town when the latter rose to greatness.

In the 11th century B.C., the Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. ...Phoenicians, astute traders who were on their way to becoming This article is about the ancient city_state of Carthage in North Africa. ...Carthaginians, sensed the possibilities of a port city south of present_day Tunis is the capital of Tunisia. ...Tunis and founded Hadrumentum (modern Sousse (Arabicسوسة Susa ; (140 km south of Tunis), is situated on the east coast of Tunisia and is the most important junction for overland communications in Tunisia. ...Sousse, The Tunisian Republic, or Tunisia, is a Muslim Arab country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast. ...Tunisia).

Hadrumetum was one of the most important communities within the This article is about the ancient city_state of Carthage in North Africa. ...Carthaginian territory in northern Africa because of its strategic location on the sea in the heart of the fertile Sahel is an area of Tunisia. ...Sahel region. The city allied itself with The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. ...Rome during the History __ Military History __ War The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and the Phoenician city of Carthage. ...Punic Wars, thereby escaping damage or ruin and entered a relatively peaceful 700_year stint under Pax Romana, Latin for the Roman peace, is the long period of peace experienced by states within the Roman Empire. ...Pax Romana.

Under the The Roman Empire is not the Holy Roman Empire (843_1806). ...Roman Empire it became very prosperous; Emperor Trajan Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (September 18, 53 _ August 9, 117), Roman Emperor (98 _ 117), commonly called Trajan, was the second of the so_called five good emperors of the Roman Empire. ...Trajan gave it the rank of a A colonia was a Roman outpost, usually established by veterans of a Roman Legion, who received land as a part of their retirement from the Legions. ...colonia. At the end of the third century it even became the capital of the newly_made province of At the end of the third century A.D., the Emperor Diocletian divided the great Roman province of Africa Proconsularis into smaller provinces, including Byzacena, corresponding now to the modern Sahel, region of Tunisia. ...Byzacena (modern Sahel is an area of Tunisia. ...Sahel, The Tunisian Republic, or Tunisia, is a Muslim Arab country situated on the North African Mediterranean coast. ...Tunisia).