It was established as one of their trading stations in the western Mediterranean, and grew to be a powerful city-state in its own right
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About 800 BCE.
Carthage.
Carthage.
Carthage.
Carthage, in today's Tunisia.
The Phoenicians.
Punicus was their word for Phoenicians - Carthage was originally a Phoenician colony.
If you mean who founded Carthage, it was established by the Phoenicians, a seafaring people from present day Lebanon.
They were descended from Phoenicians from the Levant.