This article is about the ancient city of Utica in Tunisia. For other places with this name, see Utica. Utica was a Phoenician colony, on the African coast, near Carthage. ...

Ancient city northwest of Carthage near outflow of Bagradas (al-Majrada). Founded as a port by the Phoenicians long before Carthage, it is now located 10 km from the coastline. Between 146 and 25 BC Utica was the capital of the Roman province of Africa. Utica has been partially excavated. A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ... 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. ... BC may stand for: Ballistic Coefficient  a measure of air drag on a projectile by calculating a ratio its sectional density to its coefficient of form. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ...

It was here where Cato the younger, the last remaining opponent of Julius Caesar in the Roman Civil War, made his stand and killed himself. For this, he is known as "Cato Uticensis" (Cato of Utica). Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis (95 BCE–46 BCE), known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ... Bust of Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... There were several Roman civil wars, especially during the time of the late Republic. ...