Ruins in Tunisia today are from the later Roman occupation of this city founded by the Phoenicians around 814 B.C.
The Roman city was again occupied by the Muslim conquest of the 
Maghreb,... [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Wikipedia [PAR] Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization of unknown origin 
situated on the coastal part of the Fertile Crescent, on the coastline of what is now 
Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Syria, .... Carthage was founded in 814 
BC under Pygmalion of Tyre (820774 BC).