Ruins in Tunisia today are from the later Roman occupation of this city founded by the Phoenicians around 814 B.C.
[DOC] [TLE] Phoenician Colonies - A Bequest Unearthed, Phoenicia [PAR] Material evidence of Phoenician occupation in the 8th century BC comes from ... 
in 580 BC some Greek cities in Sicily attempted to drive the Phoenicians from 
Motya ... Utica, on the Tunisian coast of North Africa, was reputedly founded in 
1178 BC, .... current among the Greeks, who called the city Karchedon; but the 
Roman... [DOC] [TLE] Elissar, Dido, the Queen of Carthage and her city [PAR] Elissar or Elissa (Elishat, in Phoenician) was a princess of Tyre.