Until 308 BC, Carthage was ruled, at least officially, by Kings. Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 313 BC 312 BC 311 BC 310 BC 309 BC 308 BC 307 BC 306 BC 305... Jump to: navigation, search A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ...
In 480 BC, following Hamilcar I's death, the King lost most of his power to an aristocratic Council of Elders. In 308 BC, Bomilcar attempted a coup to restore the monarch to full power, but failed, which led to Carthage becoming in name as well as in fact a republic. Hanno the Great was a wealthy Carthaginian aristocrat in the 3rd century BC. Hannos wealth was based on the land he owned in North Africa, and during the First Punic War he led the faction in Carthage that was opposed to continuing the war against Rome. ...
Carthage was a contemporary superpower with the Roman Republic of the 2nd and 3rd Century BC, and was its rival for dominance of the western Mediterranean.
A new city of Carthage was built on the same land, and by the 1st century it had grown to the second largest city in the western half of the Roman empire, with a peak population of 500,000.
Carthage briefly became the capital of an usurper, Domitius Alexander, in 308-311.
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