The term Carthaginian ( ) usually refers to the civilisation of
ancient Carthage
Ancient Carthage ( ; , ) was an Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state, and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians ...
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It may also refer to:
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Punic people
The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'' ...
, the Semitic-speaking people of Carthage
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Punic language
The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language, a Canaanite languages, Canaanite language of the Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages. An ...
, also known as Carthaginian
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''Carthaginian'' (ship), a three-masted schooner built in 1921
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Insurgent privateers
Insurgent privateers () were private armed vessels recruited by the insurgent governments during the Spanish American wars of independence to destroy Spanish trade and capture Spanish merchant vessels.
Privateering started early in the war in 18 ...
, private armed vessels recruited by the insurgent governments during the Spanish American wars of independence, particularly those hailing from Cartagena, Colombia
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