[ 2 syll. cin-dy, ci-ndy ] The baby girl name Cindy is pronounced as S IH NDiy- â . Cindy is used mostly in English, Latin, and Dutch, and its language of origin is French and Old Greek. From the short form of other given names, but now used as an independent name in its own right.n addition, Cindy is a diminutive form of the English name Cinderella. Cindy is also a diminutive form (English and Latin) of the English, German, and Greek name Cynthia. Cindy is also a diminutive form (Dutch and English) of the English, Portuguese, and Spanish name Lucinda.
By the time the Greeks were colonizing Syracuse and the rest of Sicily, the Phoenicians were already (9th century B.C.) a major power in the middle of the Mediterranean. The principal city of the Phoenicians, Carthage, was located near modern Tunis, on a promontory on the Northern Coast of Africa.
Carthage is currently a suburb of Tunis, but it was once one of the most important and prosperous cities of the ancient world. Founded by Phoenician settlers about 3,000 years ago, Carthage was famous for its rivalry with Rome, and is a center of polytheistic religious practices.unisia is bordered by Algeria in the west and Libya in the east. Parts of Tunisia and Italy are less than 200 miles from one another across the Mediterranean Sea, and the nations have had countless friendly and hostile interactions since ancient times.