Carthage, the famous Phoenician colony established in present day Tunis, by people who
came from the Phoenician center in Tyre in the Eastern Mediterranean. Puni, Poeni (Punic)
was the Roman name for the Carthaginian civilization.
By the 6
th
C. B.C. Carthage became a multiethnic empire, more successful than Athens in
integrating other cities and peoples into its military and thus sharing the burden of warfare.