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History of Tunisia
*Beginning of recorded history inhabited by Berber tribes
*Coast settled by Phoenicians as early as the 10th century BC
*Carthage founded in the 9th cent BC
*Settlers from Tyre, modern day Lebanon.
*Legend says Dido founded city 814 BC: Greek writer Timaeus of Tauromenium.
*Brought culture and religion from Phoenicians and other Canaanites.