الجند المرتزقة في قرطاجة (241–237 ق.م)

Abstract

The ongoing conflict between the Roman Empire and the Carthaginians in the Mediterranean region and their intense competition for control over Sicily ultimately led to a long war. It was inevitable that one of them would emerge victorious and eliminate the other from existence, and this is what happened. The end was tragic with Carthage's defeat in the First Punic War, resulting in the massacre of the Carthaginian government of Libyan and foreign soldiers who fought against the Greeks and Romans. Carthaginian leaders abandoned the remaining troops without paying their dues. Following the end of the First Punic War, the mercenary soldiers in the city of Carthage rebelled against the Carthaginian government due to non-payment of their financial dues, sparking a rebellion in ancient Morocco. The problem of the study lies in highlighting the role of the mercenary soldiers in the Carthaginian army and their actions against Carthage. The study concluded that the mercenary soldiers in Carthage initially complained about the non-payment of their financial dues, which then turned into a rebellion against Carthage that led into a revolution. The Carthaginians adopted the formula of paid soldiers, and practiced exclusion from the Maghreb peoples and continued to consider them as alien peoples to them, instead of integrating them politically and militarily to confront the danger coming from across the sea.