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Plan of Roman Carthage Map of Roman remains within the modern Carthage municipality. Roman Carthage was an important city in ancient Rome , located in modern-day Tunisia . Approximately 100 years after the destruction of Punic Carthage in 146 BC, a new city of the same name ( Latin Carthāgō ) was built on the same land by the Romans in the ...
The 525 Council of Carthage was convened by Bishop Boniface of Carthage in order to re-establish power over North Africa's Nicene bishops after the rule of Arian Vandal bishops. [20] The Council lasted from 5 to 6 February 525 CE.
The islands prospered under Roman rule, and were eventually distinguished as a Municipium and a Foederata Civitas. Many Roman antiquities still exist, testifying to the close link between the Maltese inhabitants and Sicily. [14] Throughout the period of Roman rule, Latin became Malta's official language, and Roman religion was introduced in the ...
Carthage was almost defenceless, and submitted when besieged. [103] But the Romans demanded complete surrender and removal of the city into the desert hinterland, far from any coastal or harbour region; the Carthaginians refused. The city was besieged and completely destroyed. [104] Rome acquired all of Carthage's North African and Iberian ...
250, Roman victory at the Battle of Nicopolis ad Istrum. Gothic victory at the Battle of Beroe. Siege and sack of Philippopolis by Goths led by Cniva. [51] 251, Three Roman legions defeated by Goths at the Battle of Abritus, Emperor Decius dies in battle, Co-Emperor Herennius Etruscus dies in battle.
A bread stall, from a Pompeiian wall painting. Most people would have consumed at least 70 percent of their daily calories in the form of cereals and legumes. [1] Grains included several varieties of wheat—emmer, rivet wheat, einkorn, spelt, and common wheat (Triticum aestivum) [2] —as well as the less desirable barley, millet, and oats.
After Carthage was defeated by Rome in the First Punic War (264–241 BC) and lost the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica to Rome, Hamilcar Barca conquered southern Hispania. His family established Carthaginian dominions in most of southern Hispania.
[34] [35] [36] Rome fought Carthage in the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), and the Gauls typically sided with Carthage. [36] After the war, Rome took Bononia ...