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In our timeline and many ATLs on this site covering the period, Phoenician power in North Africa is an all-or-nothing affair. It is either an empire or republic based on the city of Carthage.

But there is so many other cities founded by Phoenicians along the North African and Spanish Coast. In fact several of them were independent in our timeline, although in the end they were all incorporated into some other power (eventually the Roman Empire). So is there any other Phoenician cities that could rise to a position of prominence, even to the level of Carthage.

I would be most interested in it happening after the independence of Carthage from Tyre (so Carthage should still exist) but any details would be useful.

To give an idea of the number of settlements (admittedly many of them are small or out of the way):



Part of the advantage Carthage has is that it is near the narrow area between Tunisia and Italy so it sees a lot of traffic, but with a little luck surely some of the other cities could reach that level on their own.
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