The first war was fought between 264 BC and 241 BC. he second from 218 BC to 201 BC. Third was between 149 BC and 146 BC.
Rome defeated the Carthaginians in the Three Punic Wars (264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, and 149-146 BC).
Carthage.
The Punic wars
The first Punic war, like all the Punic wars, were between Rome and Carthage.
Sold them into slavery.
Third Punic War.
Punicus was originally the Latin name for the Phoenicians. Later it came to mean Carthaginian (the Carthaginians were Phoenicians). The Punic Wars (there were three of them) were fought between Rome and Carthage.
The name is Punic. Punic was the Roman name for the Phoenicians. The Carthaginians were Phoenicians who originated from Tyre, the main city on Phoenicia (Modern Lebanon).
The reason for the Punic Wars was competing interests and Romans expansion, which was eyeing Sicily, which had territory in Carthage. Punic was the Latin name for the Carthaginians. The Punic Wars were a series of 3 wars fought between Rome and city-state from 264 before Christ to 146 before Christ.
The first of the three Punic Wars fought by Rome and Carthage was over the control of Sicily.
They had none - Rome had isolated Carthage.
In 264, as the beginnig of the the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. The Carthaginians were known to the Romans as the Punicci...thus "Punic" War.