Tunisia: "A Country That Works"; Tunisia in History; The Country Which Gave Its Name to a Continent

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: December 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

TUNISIA: "A COUNTRY THAT WORKS"; Tunisia in History; The Country Which Gave Its Name to a Continent

When it was called Carthage, Tunisia was the first African country to make major conquests in Europe. A Carthaginian general, Hannibal, launched his army in Spain, marched through France, and conquered much of Italy, actually laying siege to Rome. However, changes of fortune shifted the battle back to Africa where, finally, Roman armies ended two centuries of intermittent warfare with the Carthaginians by destroying their capital, now a suburb of the modern Tunisian capital.

Then Tunisia became ...

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