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2 days ago · For its capital city, see Carthage. Ancient Carthage ( / ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ / KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit.'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. [4] Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth ...
2 days ago · Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
4 days ago · Barbuda, formerly Dulcina, lies 25 miles (40 km) north of Antigua. A coral island, flat and well-wooded, with highlands rising to 143 feet (44 metres) at Lindsay Hill in the northeast, it is 62 square miles (161 square km) in area. Barbuda is without streams or lakes and receives less rainfall than Antigua.
1 day ago · Located some 125 miles (200km) northeast of modern-day Sudanese capital Khartoum, Meroe was the heart of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient African kingdom, between the 8th century BC and 4th century AD.
4 days ago · Central African Republic, landlocked country located in the centre of Africa. The area that is now the Central African Republic has been settled for at least 8,000 years. The earliest inhabitants were the probable ancestors of today’s Aka (Pygmy) peoples, who live in the western and southern forested regions of the country.
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4 days ago · Pyramids at Meroe, Sudan. Sudan, country located in northeastern Africa. The name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”), by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara. For more than a century, Sudan—first as a colonial ...
2 days ago · e. The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire ), called Tawantinsuyu by its subjects ( Quechua for the " Realm of the Four Parts " [a] ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [4] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization rose from the ...
