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Carthage hid a war harbour behind its merchant port

The cothon let the city fit and launch a large fleet inside its own walls Ancient writers described Carthage as having two harbours: a rectangular merchant basin and an inner circular one ringed by covered ship sheds, called a cothon. Archaeologists have traced the circular basin, which could shelter well over a hundred warships. Rome destroyed the city in 146 BCE at the end of the Third Punic War. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The cothon let the city fit and launch a large fleet inside its own walls. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a history fact?: Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.