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Utica (also Utique), 33km north of Tunis, was the first Phoenician colony on the North African coast. worldhistory.org/Utica/

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Carthago Nova (modern-day Cartagena) was a city on the southern Iberian Peninsula, Spain, originally known as Mastia. Human habitation of the region predates the Neolithic Period, but the area around the site of Carthago Nova seems to have been sparsely populated until after the Bronze Age when a port city was built on a peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean Sea.
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The Carthaginians are also considered to have an excellent form of government, which differs from that of any other state in several respects, though it is in some very like the Spartan. Indeed, all three states—-the Spartan, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian—-nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority...worldhistory.org/article/193/a

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