Colonia Junonia

{{Short description|Ancient Roman colony}} '''Colonia Junonia''' (sometimes ''Iunonia'') refers to an Ancient Roman colony established in 122 BC under the direction of Gaius Gracchus.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hooper|first=Finley|title=Roman Realities|url=https://archive.org/details/romanrealities0000hoop|url-access=registration|year=1979|publisher=Wayne State University Press|isbn=0-8143-1594-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/romanrealities0000hoop/page/173 173]}}</ref>

==History== It is significant as it was the first 'transmarine' Roman colony.<ref name=salmon1969>E. T. Salmon, Roman Colonization Under the Republic (Aspects of Greek and Roman life). London: Thames and Hudson, 1969, p. 119</ref> The colony was located at the site of the destroyed city of Carthage, a reason for its widespread unpopularity with Romans. Those superstitious about the site spread reports of ill omens, including a claim that wolves had carried off the boundary stakes.<ref name=salmon1969 /> The colony would only last 30 years.

Julius Caesar later rebuilt Carthage on the site between 49 and 44 BC, the city became the second largest city in the republic.<ref>{{cite web|title=Carthage (ancient city)|url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557005/Carthage_(ancient_city).html|website=encarta.msn.org|accessdate=2 November 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028184103/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761557005/Carthage_%28ancient_city%29.html|archivedate=October 28, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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Category:Coloniae (Roman)