[QUOTE=pezhetairoi]...QH? xP

Qart Hadast - my fault . Should have been Karthadastim. I was influenced by the spelling of this name in a great book, "Hannibal" by Gisbert Haefs. It's German, but as far as I know it has also been translated in a lot of other languages. I can assure you, that it really rocks. It is written in a very dense way and describes the life of Hannibal and some of his comrades beginning in Qart Hadast at the time of the first punic war, continuing with the war in spain and finally (after some exploits in italy) ending in bithynia. It is a novel, not a history book, but it is very, very good and historically accurate. If you start reading it, you won't stop again.