Tunis Governorate
Carthage
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Carthage

Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the in what is now . Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.
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  • Type: Ruin
  • Description: historical city in Tunisia
  • Also known as: “Carthago”, “Colonia Julia Carthago”, “Karchaedon”, “Karchēdon”, “Karthada”, “Kirjath-Hadeshath”, and “Qarţājannah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baths of Antoninus and Acropolium of Carthage.

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The or Baths of Carthage, located in Carthage, , are the largest set of Roman built on the African continent and one of three largest built in the Roman Empire.

Cathedral
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The Acropolium, also known as Saint Louis Cathedral, is a former Roman Catholic church located in Carthage, . The cathedral sits on the peak of , near the ruins of the ancient Punic and then Roman city.

Park
The Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum is an archaeological museum of Paleochristian artifacts, located in Carthage, . Built on an excavation site, it lies above the former Carthaginian basilica.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Marsa and Sidi Bou Said.

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is a coastal city located in the northeastern part of Tunisia, situated along the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Tunis Governorate and has a population of around 100,000 people.

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is a village in . The best time to visit is early autumn or spring, before the assault of package tourists begins, when you can still walk alone on the narrow streets, around white-blue traditional houses, enjoying the views.

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, in Arabic Halq al-Wadi, is a municipality and the port of , . is located at around on a sandbar between and the .

Carthage

Latitude
36.8531° or 36° 51′ 11″ north
Longitude
10.3231° or 10° 19′ 23″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
8F8GV83F+66
Geo­Names ID
2468244
Wiki­data ID
Q6343
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Carthage” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kartago”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καρχηδών”
  • Arabic: “قرطاج”
  • Arabic: “قرطاجة”
  • Armenian: “Կարթագեն”
  • Asturian: “Cartago”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karfagen”
  • Bambara: “Kartaje”
  • Basque: “Kartago”
  • Belarusian: “Картаген”
  • Belarusian: “Карфаген”
  • Bengali: “কার্থেজ”
  • Bosnian: “Kartaga”
  • Bosnian: “Kartago”
  • Breton: “Kartada”
  • Breton: “Kartago”
  • Bulgarian: “Картаген”
  • Burmese: “ကားသေ့နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ကားသေ့မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cartago”
  • Catalan: “Lloc arqueològic de Cartago”
  • Cebuano: “Kartago”
  • Chinese: “Carthago”
  • Chinese: “迦太基”
  • Chinese: “迦太基市”
  • Croatian: “Kartaga”
  • Czech: “Kartágo”
  • Danish: “Kartago”
  • Danish: “Karthago”
  • Dutch: “Carthago”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قرطاجه”
  • Esperanto: “Kartago”
  • Estonian: “Kartaago”
  • Faroese: “Karthago”
  • Finnish: “Karthago”
  • French: “Carthage”
  • Galician: “Cartago”
  • Georgian: “კართაგენი”
  • German: “Carthago”
  • German: “Colonia Julia Carthago”
  • German: “Karthago”
  • Greek: “Καρχηδόνα”
  • Greek: “Καρχηδών”
  • Hebrew: “קרת חדשה”
  • Hebrew: “קרת חדשת”
  • Hebrew: “קרתגו”
  • Hebrew: “קרתחדשת”
  • Hindi: “कार्थेज”
  • Hungarian: “Karthágó”
  • Icelandic: “Karþagó”
  • Ido: “Kartago”
  • Indonesian: “Carthage”
  • Indonesian: “Kartago”
  • Interlingua: “Carthago”
  • Interlingue: “Cartago”
  • Irish: “an Chartaig”
  • Irish: “An Chartaig”
  • Italian: “Cartagine”
  • Japanese: “カルタゲ”
  • Japanese: “カルタゴ”
  • Javanese: “Kartago”
  • Kabyle: “Qarṭaj”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Karfagen”
  • Kazakh: “Карфаген”
  • Kirghiz: “Карфаген”
  • Korean: “카르타고”
  • Kurdish: “Kartaca”
  • Ladino: “Kartago”
  • Latin: “Carthago”
  • Latin: “Carthāgō”
  • Latin: “Karthago”
  • Latvian: “Kartāga”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Cartago”
  • Literary Chinese: “迦太基”
  • Lithuanian: “Kartagina”
  • Low German: “Karthago”
  • Luxembourgish: “Karthago”
  • Macedonian: “Картагина”
  • Malagasy: “Carthage”
  • Malay: “Carthage”
  • Malay: “Carthago”
  • Malayalam: “കാർത്തേജ്”
  • Maltese: “Kartaġiniżi”
  • Maltese: “Kartaġni”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Carthago”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carthago”
  • Mingrelian: “კართაგენი”
  • Mongolian: “Карфаген”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “قرطاج”
  • Neapolitan: “Cartagene”
  • Neapolitan: “Cartagine”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kartago”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karthago”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kartago”
  • Norwegian: “Kartago”
  • Norwegian: “Karthago”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cartage”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܪܬܐܓܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cartaina”
  • Ossetian: “Карфаген”
  • Persian: “کارتاژ”
  • Polish: “Kartagina”
  • Portuguese: “Cartago”
  • Pushto: “کارتاژ”
  • Romanian: “Cartagina”
  • Russian: “Картаж”
  • Russian: “Карфаген (город)”
  • Russian: “Карфаген”
  • Saraiki: “قرطاجنہ”
  • Sardinian: “Cartàgine”
  • Scots: “Carthage”
  • Serbian: “Картагина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kartaga”
  • Sicilian: “Cartàggini”
  • Slovak: “Kartágo”
  • Slovenian: “Kartagina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارتاژ”
  • Spanish: “Cartago”
  • Swahili: “Karthago”
  • Swedish: “Karthago”
  • Swiss German: “Karthago”
  • Tachelhit: “Taqrṭajt”
  • Tagalog: “Kartago”
  • Tamil: “கர்த்தாஜ்”
  • Tamil: “கார்த்திஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Картаҗ”
  • Thai: “คาร์เธจ”
  • Tibetan: “ཅ་ཐའེ་ཅི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Karthago”
  • Turkish: “Kartaca”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱ri̱tago”
  • Ukrainian: “Карфаген (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Карфаген”
  • Urdu: “قرطاجنہ”
  • Uzbek: “Karfagen”
  • Venetian: “Cartàxene”
  • Venetian: “Cartàzene”
  • Vietnamese: “Carthage”
  • Vietnamese: “Carthago”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartago”
  • Welsh: “Carthago”
  • Western Armenian: “Կարթագէն”
  • Western Frisian: “Kartago”
  • Wu Chinese: “迦太基”
  • Yue Chinese: “迦太基”

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