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THE ROMAN REPUBLIC endured by far its gravest threat in the Second Punic War (219-202 B.C.) against the great commercial state of Carthage, founded by the Phoenicians and located near present-day Tunis in north Africa.

THE ROMAN REPUBLIC endured by far its gravest threat in the Second Punic War (219-202 B.C.) against the great commercial state of Carthage, founded by the Phoenicians and located near present-day Tunis in north Africa.