Utica (also Utique), 33km north of Tunis, was the first Phoenician colony on the North African coast. The strategically important port was an ally to Carthage in the First Punic War, but the city switched sides in the Second and Third Punic Wars so that it later thrived as capital of the Roman province of Africa.
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c. 1101 BCETraditional founding date for the Phoenician colony of Utica by Sidon (or Tyre).
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309 BCE - 308 BCEAgathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra.
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264 BCE - 241 BCEFirst Punic War. Carthage cedes Sicily to Rome.
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218 BCE - 201 BCESecond Punic War.
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204 BCE - 203 BCEScipio Africanus wins two battles and besieges Utica in North Africa.
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149 BCE - 146 BCEThird Punic War.
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146 BCEUtica is made the capital of the Roman province of Africa.
