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Carthage and group
After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.
In the time of Augustine, a group of " Tertullianists " still had a basilica in Carthage which, within that same period, passed to the orthodox Church.
Some recovery was made in the following decades, but the Western Empire received a serious blow when another barbarian group, the Vandals, occupied Carthage, capital of the extremely important province of Africa, a major supplier of wealth and grain.
A group of " Tertullianists " may have continued at Carthage.
The second group are those Romans who have advocated surrender to Carthage after the Battle of Cannae, or who have made plans to flee Rome and offer their services in Greece, Egypt, or Asia Minor.
These actions generated considerable disturbance, and culminated in Smith's death by a vigilante group while he was in legal custody and awaiting a trial in nearby Carthage.
The Celtiberians were the most influential ethnic group in pre-Roman Iberia, but they had their largest impact on history during the Second Punic War, during which they became the ( perhaps unwilling ) allies of Carthage in its conflict with Rome, and crossed the Alps in the mixed forces under Hannibal's command.
In Carthage, the group finds the very Heart / Core of Lyoko itself, which X. A. N. A.
In the hopes of isolating the group from Carthage, since destroying Lyoko directly would prove difficult, X. A. N. A.
The group had reported to Carthage, the county seat, to face charges brought against Joseph.
This group was in the majority, in part because the populace of Carthage did not want to submit to a people they had traditionally dominated.

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

Carthage and islands
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.

Carthage and north
Hasdrubal pursued a policy of consolidation of Carthage's Iberian interests, even signing a treaty with Rome whereby Carthage would not expand north of the Ebro River, so long as Rome did not expand south of it.
* Himilco crosses to Sicily from Carthage with a fresh army, conquers the north coast, puts Dionysius I, the Tyrant of Syracuse, on the defensive and besieges Syracuse.
Around 1060 a Benedictine monk and native of Carthage, Constantine the African, arrived at the Abbey of Monte Cassino, 100 miles to the north of Salerno.
Moreover, as is well-known, the historical Antony and Cleopatra were the prototypes and antitypes for Virgil ’ s Dido and Aeneas: Dido, ruler of the north African city of Carthage, tempts Aeneas, the legendary exemplar of Roman pietas, to forego his task of founding Rome after the fall of Troy.
The name Numidia was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as far as the river Mulucha ( Muluya ), about 100 miles west of Oran.
Eventually the Tyrians arrived on the north coast of Africa, where they received permission to build on an island in the harbor of the place where Carthage was eventually to be built.
A one story single-room wooden structure with a large door in the south, was completed on June 29, 1842, and was located on the north side of the present public square in Carthage.
It is thought that Neith may correspond to the goddess Tanit, worshipped in north Africa by the early Berber culture ( existing from the beginnings of written records ) and through the first Punic culture originating from the founding of Carthage by Dido.
Carl Sandburg College, based in Galesburg, Illinois, has a satellite campus located on the north side of Carthage.
* Hewitt Park – A location north of Carthage on NY-3.
Quillen – A location north of Carthage.
Castorland is a village in the southeast part of the Town of Denmark in Lewis County, New York, United States ; it is north of Lowville and southeast of Carthage.
State Route 25 connects Carthage with Trousdale County and north-central Tennessee to the northwest, and State Route 80 connects the town with Macon County to the north.
Hartsville lies at the junction of State Route 25, which connects the town with Carthage to the southeast and Sumner County to the west, and State Route 141, which connects Hartsville with Lebanon to the south and Macon County to the north.
With its defeat of Carthage in the Punic Wars --- greatly helped by the defection of the Carthaginian's eastern Numidian Massylii client-allies under their King Massinissa to the Roman cause in 206 BC --- Rome took over many of these ports, and ultimately it took control of the entire Maghreb north of the Atlas Mountains.
Thus, 3 power blocks were delicately balanced in Sicily by 483 BC – Ionians dominating the north, Carthage the west, Dorians the east and south.
Tiberius was to take two legions to Sicily and wait there for orders to invade Carthage, while Publius was sent north to counter an expected invasion of Italy from the north.
Hannibal and his army vanished to the north while Scipio perceiving that he had lost them sent the main force against New Carthage under command of his brother while he returned by ship to Pisa, marched through Etruria, acquired the legions of Manlius and Atilius and camped along the Po to wait for Hannibal.
The rival armies met 10 miles north of Carthage, and the State Guard raised two Confederate stars and bars flags on either side of their line, which stretched over half a mile.
In 1818, Joshua Woodard arrived in the area and began constructing buildings just north of the village forming the " Upper Village " that would come to be known briefly as Carthage.
At U. S. Highway 24, Interstate 172 becomes Illinois Route 336, which runs north to Carthage, Illinois.
In 1817 Reed would sell the property to George B. Depeyster and William H. Price, who helped develop the villages of Carthage in the north and Franklin Mills in the south.
Another was assigned when NY 3 was rerouted between Deferiet and Wilna to bypass Carthage to the north on modern NY 3A.

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