Historical place profile
Carthago
Carthage was first a Phoenician and Punic metropolis, then a Roman provincial centre and one of the most important cities of Latin Christianity in North Africa.
Historical layers
- Punic foundation and western Mediterranean power
- Roman destruction and refoundation
- Provincial capital of Africa Proconsularis
- African councils, martyrs and Latin Fathers
- Vandal and Byzantine periods
Church-history significance
Tertullian, Cyprian, the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, repeated African councils and Augustine’s wider network make Carthage central to early Latin Christianity. The city’s episcopal influence must be distinguished from later Roman primacy debates.
Primary and geographic sources
- Pleiades place 314921
- Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs; Passion of Perpetua and Felicity
- Cyprian’s letters; African conciliar acts
Map semantics
The coordinate at 36.853056, 10.323056 is a representative_point_not_boundary. It anchors the place for research and does not assert one unchanging urban, political or ecclesiastical boundary across all periods.
Catalogue record
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:314921
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:314921
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Precision
- precise
- Provenance
- Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 F3 Carthago