* Carthage evacuates all of the small islands between Sicily and Africa ( Pantelleria, Linosa, Lampedusa, Lampione and Malta ).

After the sojourn in Carthage, the Trojans returned to Sicily where Aeneas organizes funeral games to honor his father, who had died a year before.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

A peace treaty with Carthage left him in control of Sicily east of the Halycus River.

The main blockade targets were the important ports, since neither Carthage nor Rome were based in Sicily and both needed continuous reinforcements and communication with the mainland.

Meanwhile, Carthage had begun to build a mercenary army in Africa which was to be shipped to Sicily to meet the Romans.

In past wars on the island of Sicily, Carthage had won out by relying on certain fortified strong-points throughout the island, and their plan was to conduct the land war in the same fashion.

Seeking a swifter end to the war than the long sieges in Sicily would have provided, Rome decided to invade the Carthaginian colonies of Africa and usurp Carthage's supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea, consequently forcing Carthage to accept its terms.

At this point ( 247 BC ), Carthage sent general Hamilcar Barca ( Hannibal's father ) to Sicily.

Without naval support, Hamilcar Barca was cut off from Carthage and forced to negotiate peace and agree to evacuate Sicily.

Consequently, Carthage was able to reinforce and re-supply its besieged strongholds, especially Lilybaeum, on the western end of Sicily.

* Carthage transfers a group of small islands north of Sicily ( Aeolian Islands and Ustica ) to Rome.

Five Greek cities in Sicily defect from Carthage to Rome.

As a result of the recent losses, Carthage endeavors to strengthen its garrisons in Sicily and recapture Agrigentum.

After his defection, Alcibiades claimed to the Spartans that the Athenians planned to use Sicily as a springboard for the conquest of all of Italy and Carthage, and to use the resources and soldiers from these new conquests to conquer the Peloponnese.

With the two powers now embroiled in the conflict, tensions quickly escalated into a full-scale war between Carthage and Rome for the control of Sicily.

In 241 BC, Carthage signed a peace treaty under the terms of which they evacuated Sicily and paid Rome a large war indemnity.

This resulted in delay of payments owed to the mercenary troops that had served Carthage in Sicily, leading to a climate of mutual mistrust and, finally, a revolt supported by the Libyan natives, known as the Mercenary War ( 240 – 238 BC ).

Between 1030 and 1035, Pisa went on to defeat several rival towns in Sicily and conquer Carthage in North Africa.

The victory over Carthage in the First Punic War brought the first two provinces outside the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Corsica et Sardinia.

At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage.

Then in the early 4th century BC, the tyrant Dionysius the Elder was again at war against Carthage and, although losing Gela and Camarina, kept that power from capturing the whole of Sicily.

* 406 BC: The Carthaginians once again invade Sicily and return to Carthage with spoils of war, but also with the plague.

Carthage under Hamilcar tries to intervene but a force under the Roman general and consul Marcus Atilius Regulus and his colleague Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus defeat the Carthaginian fleet in the Battle of Cape Ecnomus off the southern coast of Sicily.

After some hesitation, Carthage sent a small force, with the assistance of which the Segestans defeated the Selinuntines in a battle.

At Carthage, a large cemetery exists that combines the bodies of both very young children and small animals, and those who argue in favor of child sacrifice have argued that if the animals were sacrificed then so too were the children.

Carthage at this time was feeling the strain of the prolonged conflict ( In addition to maintaining a fleet and soldiers in Sicily they were also fighting the Libyans and Numidians in Africa ), and as a result Hamilcar was given a fairly small army and the Carthaginian fleet was gradually withdrawn so that by 242 BC Carthage had no ships to speak of in Sicily.

Gisco sensibly sent the troops to Carthage in small groups with intervals in between so the government could pay them off without trouble.

Carthage gained a small amount of attention when it was featured in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

From their principal center of power at Carthage, the Carthaginians expanded and established small settlements ( called emporia in Greek ) along the North African coast ; these settlements eventually served as market towns as well as anchorages.

Taking control of Messana allowed them to decrease Syracuse's power and since Carthage already controlled North Africa, parts of Spain, Sardinia, and some small islands in the Mediterranean, control of Messana could lead to the conquest of Sicily.

Since 264 BC, when they had declared war on Carthage, there had not been much serious fighting between the two except for a small fight in the straits of Messana.

Reeves was born in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage.

Initially a small Phoenician harbour, the city came under the influence of Carthage after the defeat of Agathocles during the Punic Wars.

Denver is a small unincorporated community located in rural Harmony Township in Hancock County in the U. S. state of Illinois, about eight miles south of Carthage and about 30 miles northeast of Quincy.

When Smith was in the Carthage Jail in 1844, after he fired his last round in a small pepper-box pistol ( which had been given to him that morning by Cyrus Wheelock ), he held up his arms and may have been giving the Masonic call of distress, hoping Masons in the contingent would honor this call and not fire on him.

In 1977 a huge blizzard struck the Tug Hill Plateau and dumped 97 inches in the small village of Carthage.

The terms of the Treaty of Lutatius designed by the Romans were particularly heavy for Carthage, which had lost bargaining power following its defeat at the Aegates islands.

As Carthage was under siege and engaged in a difficult civil war, they begrudgingly accepted the loss of these islands and the subsequent Roman conditions for ongoing peace, which also increased the war indemnity levied against Carthage after the first Punic War.

The islands later came under the control of Carthage ( 400 BC ) and then of the Roman Republic ( 218 BC ).

They called the islands " Gorgades " in remembering the home of the mythical Gorgons killed by Perseus and afterwards-in typically ancient euhemerism-interpreted ( against the written original statement ) as the site where the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator slew two female " Gorillai " and brought their skins into the temple of the female deity Tanit ( the Carthaginian Juno ) in Carthage.

* Carthage would evacuate all islands between Italy and Sicily – probably the Aegates Islands in addition to the Aeolian Islands.

Rome, which had dealt with Carthage with all due honor and courtesy during the crisis, going as far as to release all Punic prisoners without ransom and refuse to accept offers from Utica and Rebels mercenaries based in Sardinia to incorporate these territories into the Roman domain, seized Sardinia and Corsica and forced Carthage to pay 1, 200 talents for her initial refusal to renounce her claim over the islands.

As part of the terms of the treaty, Rome demanded that Carthage give up " all islands lying between Sicily and Italy ", immediately pay Rome a sum of 1, 000 talents of gold, and pay a further 2, 000 talents over a period of 10 years.