Lasting only three years or so, this was also the shortest of the Punic Wars and saw the complete destruction of the Carthaginian and Punic civilization as a whole, as well as the incorporation and assimilation of North Africa and the rest of the Punic territories as Roman.įollowing their victory during the Second Punic War, the city of Rome set about on series of campaigns of conquest during the Hellenistic Period that would cause them to dominate nearly all of the Mediterranean basin, save for the Carthaginian territories. Unlike the previous two wars which occurred all around the Mediterranean, the Third Punic War was mostly focused on North Africa, in the area of modern day Tunisia. ![]() ![]() The Third Punic War, also known in Latin as Tertium Bellum Punicum was the final of the Punic Wars that lasted between 149 BC an 146 BC fought between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginians.
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