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, 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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