Carthaginian
111Hamilcar Barca — /heuh mil kahr bahr keuh, ham euhl kahr / c270 228 B.C., Carthaginian general and statesman (father of Hannibal). * * * ▪ Carthaginian general Barca also spelled Barcas died winter 229/228 BC general who assumed command of the… …
112Punic War, Second — (218–201 ),also called Second Carthaginian War, second in a series of wars between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian (Punic) Empire that resulted in Roman hegemony over the western Mediterranean. In the years after the First… …
113Roman army of the mid-Republic — Contemporary portrait of Scipio Africanus, engraved on a gold signet ring manufactured in Capua, S. Italy, Considered the greatest Roman military leader of the Second Punic War, Scipio permanently drove the Carthaginians out of Spain in a series… …
114Hellenistic-era warships — The famous 2nd century BC Nike of Samothrace, standing atop the prow of an oared warship, most probably a trihemiolia. From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and… …
115History of Africa — Pre Colonial African States …
116241 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeGreece* The Eurypontid King of Sparta, Agis IV, is called away from Sparta when Aratus of Sicyon, temporarily Sparta s ally, requests Agis aid in his war against the Aetolians. Upon his return, Agis finds that his supporters… …
117Selinunte — (Greek: polytonic|Σελινοῦς; Latin: Selinus) is an ancient Greek archaeological site situated on the south coast of Sicily between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani.The archaeological site contains five… …
118260 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeRoman Republic* The Roman advance continues westward from Agrigentum with their forces relieving the besieged cities of Segesta and Makella. These cities have sided with the Roman cause, and have come under Carthaginian attack …
119212 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeGreece* After being stopped twice by the Romans in his attempts to invade Illyria by sea, and constrained by the Roman commander Marcus Valerius Laevinus fleet in the Adriatic, Philip V of Macedon keeps his activities in… …
120228 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeCarthage* The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca is killed in a battle in Hispania, ending his lengthy campaign to conquer the Iberian Peninsula for Carthage. In eight years, by force of arms and diplomacy, he had secured an… …
