Our trip to Tunisia continues! After thoroughly lying on the sunbeds by the sea and burned to the bone, we decided to move to the glorious city of El Jem. Modern El-Jem stands on the site of an ancient Phoenician settlement, whose age, in contrast to the capital of the Phoenician kingdom - Carthage (founded in 814 BC), even scientists find it difficult to name. After a series of Punic wars between Rome and Carthage, the latter was destroyed in 146 BC. e. and turned into a colony. Moving south, the Roman Empire, presumably in 46 BC.→
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