The Romans, though certainly inheriting some of the art of road construction from the Etruscans, borrowed the knowledge of construction of viae munitae from the Carthaginians according to Isidore of Sevilla.

The space enclosed by the existing walls is of small extent, so that it is probable the city in the days of its greatness must have covered a considerable area without them: and it has been supposed by some writers that the present line of walls is that erected by Hermocrates when he restored the city after its destruction by the Carthaginians.

In 240, in the course of the First Punic War, the Carthaginian mercenaries on the island revolted and gave the Romans, who some years earlier had defeated the Carthaginians in the sea off Olbia and had occupied Sulci, the opportunity to land on Sardinia and occupy it.

The Hebrew Bible also mentions what appears to be child sacrifice practiced at a place called the Tophet (" roasting place ") by the Canaanites, ancestors of the Carthaginians, and by some Israelites.

The Carthaginians rushed to launch whatever ships they could save and some of the ships, overcrowded with soldiers, left the site altogether.

The only recognizable ruin in this city is the Tempio della Vittoria ( Temple of Victory ), a Doric structure supposedly built to commemorate the defeat of the Carthaginians ( although recently some scholars have come to doubt this hypothesis ).

Claudius Nero had just fought Hannibal in Grumentum, some hundreds of kilometers south of the Metaurus river, and reached Marcus Livius with a forced march which went unnoticed by both Hannibal and Hasdrubal, so that the Carthaginians suddenly found themselves outnumbered.

Very few traces of the languages of the native peoples of western Iberia ( Celtici, Lusitanians, Conii, or Gallaeci ), or of pre-Roman settlers like the Phoenicians or Carthaginians who settled in eastern Iberia, persist in the language, but there are some exceptions ( most are unconfirmed ).

At some undetermined time when the Carthaginians were between the Pyrenees and the Rhone they and the Boii made contact and promised mutual assistance.

They also include the myths and religions of the Celts, Celtiberians, Iberians, Milesians, Carthaginians, Suebi, Visigoths, Spaniards, Moors of Spain, and some Roman and Greek mythology.

§ 12 ) as employed by the Carthaginians against some African tribes that had rebelled.

Having previously relied on mercenaries to fight their wars for them, the Carthaginians were now forced into a more active role in the defense of their city.

Livy states that Hannibal deployed 4000 Macedonians in the second line, which is normally rejected as Roman propaganda, though T Dorey suggested that there might have been a seed of truth in the story if the Carthaginians had recruited a trivial number of mercenaries from Macedonia who had gone without official blessing.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines, Italian mercenaries that were hired to attack the Carthaginians, went to the city of Messana to protect it, but instead massacred its men, took the land, and forced the women to become their wives.

The Carthaginians hired Ligurian, Celtic, and Spanish mercenaries to induce their enemies in Sicily to attack the Romans on the half of the island which the Romans controlled.

The Carthaginians had a force of about 10, 000 mercenaries made up of Celtics and Greeks to protect the people from the Romans.

The first historical mention of Entella is found in Diodorus, who tells us that in 404 BCE the Campanian mercenaries, who had been in the service of the Carthaginians during the war, having been admitted into the city on friendly terms, turned their arms against the inhabitants, put all the male citizens to the sword, and made themselves masters of the place, of which they retained possession for many years.

During the First Punic War the Carthaginians had recruited mercenaries from diverse sources, including Iberians, Celt-Iberians, Balearic Islanders, Ligurians, Celts and Greeks.

Once in Sicca Veneria, the mercenaries collaborated on a list of demands and " submitted that this was the sum they should demand from the Carthaginians ".

The mercenaries then remove the bodies of the crucified mercenary leaders and crucify the Carthaginians in their place.

It resulted that in this battle the Carthaginians lost about eight hundred of the mercenaries, who had faced the Roman left wing, while of the Romans there were saved but about two thousand, whom the pursuit of the mercenaries I mentioned above carried out of the main battle.

The Carthaginians return to their city with the mercenaries in pursuit.

But, as more and more Iberian mercenaries deserted the Carthaginians as night drew forward, Hasdrubal tried to slip away with his remaining men in darkness.

Although the city remained neutral in the conflict between Athens and Syracuse, its democracy was overthrown when the city was sacked by the Carthaginians in 406 BC.

Polybius called it a " truceless war ", without any concept of rules of warfare and exceeding all other conflicts in cruelty, ending only with the total annihilation of one of the opponents. The conflict escalated when the mercenary leadership tortured and killed its Carthaginian prisoners and in response the Carthaginians committed similar actions.

Carthaginians had caused the collapse of Tartessos by 530 BC, either by armed conflict or by cutting off Greek trade in support of the Phoenician colony of Gades ( present-day Cádiz ).

The series of wars between Rome and Carthage were known to the Romans as the " Punic Wars " because of the Latin name for the Carthaginians: Punici, derived from Phoenici, referring to the Carthaginians ' Phoenician ancestry.

During this period it was a centre of commerce ; however a power struggle between the Greeks and the Carthaginians broke out in the form of the Sicilian Wars, causing unrest.

Shortly after, Hannibal destroyed the city walls, but gave permission to the surviving inhabitants to return and occupy it as tributaries of Carthage, an arrangement confirmed by the treaty subsequently concluded between Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, and the Carthaginians, in 405 BCE.

The city was disputed between the Romans and the Carthaginians during the First Punic War.

In the 6th century BC, due to the struggles between ancient Greece and Carthage over Sicily, Motia sided with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians against the Greeks.

Baʿal Hammon was the supreme god of the Carthaginians, and is believed that this supremacy dates back to the 5th century BC, apparently after a breaking off of relationships between Carthage and Tyre at the time of the Punic defeat in Himera.

While there, he witnesses a great but indecisive battle between the Numidians and the Carthaginians.

* The Carthaginians manage to collect the indemnity due to Rome ( through the peace treaty signed between them ten years earlier ) but not payable in full for 50 years.

* Pyrrhus negotiates with the Carthaginians to end the fighting between them in Sicily.

The Carthaginians are inclined to come to terms with Pyrrhus, but he demands that Carthage abandon all of Sicily and make the Libyan Sea the boundary between Carthage and the Greeks.

* The Carthaginians seize an opportunity to interfere in a quarrel between Syracuse and Agrigentum and besiege Syracuse.

In 157 BC he was one of the deputies sent to Carthage to arbitrate between the Carthaginians and Massinissa, king of Numidia.

3, 22 ) of an ancient and almost unintelligible treaty between the Romans and the Carthaginians, which he dated to the consulships of L. Iunius Brutus and L. Tarquinius Collatinus ( 509 BC ).

For reasons unstated by either author, the Carthaginians suspected treachery from the Gauls located between the Trebbia and the Po ; that is, on the left bank of the Trebbia, where his subsequent activity shows that Hannibal was certainly located.

" In 150 BC an appeal was made to Scipio by the Carthaginians to act as mediator between them and the Numidian prince Massinissa who, supported by a party at Rome, was incessantly encroaching on Carthaginian territory.

Many ports along the Maghreb coast were occupied or constructed by the Phoenicians, particularly the Carthaginians, whose main settlements along the North African littoral between the Pillars of Hercules and the Libyan coast east of ancient Cyrenaica, centered in the Gulf of Tunis ( Carthage, Utica ) dominated the trade and intercourse of the Western Mediterranean for centuries.

Catherwood, having made many trips to the Mediterranean between 1824 and 1832 to draw the monuments made by the Egyptians, Carthaginians, and Phoenicians, stated that the monuments in the Americas bear no architectural similarity to those in the Old World.

The Battle of Agrigentum ( Sicily, 261 BC ) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome.

Soon after, battles between the armies broke out and eventually the Carthaginians retreated and the Romans maintained their blockade.

The Carthaginians from now were forced to contest the Romans in the area between the Ebro and Jucor rivers.

Thus, in 314 BCE, Diodorus tells us that, by the treaty between Agathocles and the Carthaginians, it was stipulated that Heracleia, Selinus and Himera should continue subject to Carthage as they had been before.

It is also near the location of the battlefield of the famous battle between Romans and the Carthaginians led by Hannibal.