faction names in EB

[vonhaupold]

From Punic/Phoenician language.

Qart-Hadast,punic city founded in 227 b.c.(Asdrubal)

Old names:
Contestania or Contesta(1410 b.c,King Testa)
Karjedon,Molibdna,Nanantia(greek names;VIII century a.c.)
Mastia(VI century b.c.)
Qart-Hadast(Asdrubal,227a.c.);Karche Don-Near(greek name)
Carthago Nova or Nova Cartaginem(Scipio,209 b.c.)
Carthago Spartaria(later,roman name)
Cartaginem(Carthaginensis province)
Auriola or Aureriola(Suintila y Sisebuto)
Justina(Byzantine)
Alcherone(arab name)
Qartayannat al Halfa(arab;739a.c)
Carthagine,Cartagenia,Cartagina
Carthagena(Alfonso X, el Sabio)
Cartagena.

I believe alot of these names refer to Cartagena in present day province of Murcia, Spain, not Carthage in North Africa. I guess the Phoenician name would be the same though since they did conquer it.

I wonder if Qart-Hadast was just what the Phoenicans named all their new cities. Kind of like Alexander the Great founding a bunch of Alexandria's.

[Lucidus]

I believe alot of these names refer to Cartagena

Yep.All of them.

I wonder if Qart-Hadast was just what the Phoenicans named all their new cities

Probably.
Carthage ( from the Phoenician Kart-hadasht meaning new town, Latin: Carthago)
And Cartagena got the same name (Asdrubal,227ac)

The name Carthage is derived by way of Greek and Latin dialects from the Phoenician (QRT HDST ) meaning "new city." More than one Phoenician settlement originally bore this name, although only one city has the distinction of being the Carthage of the ancient world.