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Classical era · 264 BCE – 241 BCE

First Punic War

The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy. The war was fought primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also in North Africa.

First Punic War
First Punic War · First_Punic_War_264_BC.png : Jon Platek derivative work: Macarenses ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
264 BCE – 241 BCE
Where
Mediterranean Sea
Era
Classical

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