The term is mostly widely known from the suffetes of Carthage, a former Phoenician colony.

It was fought between the former Phoenician colony of Carthage, and the Roman Republic.

At one time the principal Phoenician colony in Cyprus, it later became a part of the Hellenistic world.

Carthage also focused on bringing the existing Phoenician colonies along the African coast into the hegemony, but exact details are lacking.

The city has existed for nearly 3,000 years, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC into the capital of an ancient empire.

North-African production was based on an ancient tradition which can be traced back to the Phoenician colony of Carthage.

It was home to Phoenician colonies, but those disappeared with virtually no trace.

Almuñécar began as a Phoenician colony named Sexi, and even today, some of its inhabitants still call themselves Sexitanos.

Carthage was itself a Phoenician colony, established on the north coast of Africa opposite Sicily, but it had grown in power enormously.

At the time of the siege, the city held approximately 40,000 people, though the women and children were evacuated to Carthage, an ancient Phoenician colony.