Editing Carthage (section)

===Commune===
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The commune of Carthage was created by a decree of the [[Bey of Tunis]] on 15 June 1919,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Creation Date |url=http://www.commune-carthage.gov.tn/en/index.php?srub=262&rub=248 |website=commune-carthage.gov.tn}}</ref> during the rule of [[Muhammad V an-Nasir|Naceur Bey]].

In 1920, the first [[seaplane]] base was built on the [[Lake of Tunis]] for the seaplanes of Compagnie Aéronavale.<ref name="BonnichonGény2012">{{cite book|author1=Philippe Bonnichon|author2=Pierre Gény|author3=Jean Nemo|title=Présences françaises outre-mer, XVIe–XXIe siècles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSSFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA453|year=2012|publisher=Karthala Editions|isbn=978-2-8111-0737-6|page=453}}</ref> The Tunis Airfield opened in 1938, serving around 5,800 passengers annually on the Paris-[[Tunis]] route.<ref name="Staff1954">{{cite book|author=Encyclopedie Mensuelle d'Outre-mer staff|title=Tunisia 54|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbwqAAAAMAAJ&q=Compagnie+Aeronavale|year=1954|publisher=Negro Universities Press|page=166|isbn=978-0837124421}}</ref>
During World War II, the airport was used by the [[United States Army Air Forces|United States Army Air Force]] [[Twelfth Air Force]] as a headquarters and command control base for the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Campaign]] of 1943.
Construction on the [[Tunis-Carthage Airport]], which was fully funded by France, began in 1944, and in 1948 the airport become the main hub for [[Tunisair]].

In the 1950s the [[Lycée Français de Carthage]] was established to serve French families in Carthage. In 1961 it was given to the Tunisian government as part of the [[Independence of Tunisia]], so the nearby Collège Maurice Cailloux in [[La Marsa]], previously an annex of the Lycée Français de Carthage, was renamed to the Lycée Français de La Marsa and began serving the ''lycée'' level. It is currently the [[Lycée Gustave Flaubert (La Marsa)|Lycée Gustave Flaubert]].<ref name=Quisommenous>"[http://www.erlm.tn/lgf/sommes/ Qui sommes nous ?]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151107080203/http://www.erlm.tn/lgf/sommes/ Archive]). [[Lycée Gustave Flaubert (La Marsa)]]. Retrieved on February 24, 2016.</ref>

After Tunisian independence in 1956, the Tunis conurbation gradually extended around the airport, and Carthage (قرطاج ''Qarṭāj'') is now a suburb of Tunis, covering the area between Sidi Bou Said and Le Kram.<ref name="RingSalkin1996">{{cite book|author1=Trudy Ring|author2=Robert M. Salkin|author3=Sharon La Boda|title=International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R44VRnNCzAYC&pg=PA177|date=1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-884964-03-9|page=177}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1443DZAtH8C&pg=PA1615|publisher=Mittal Publications|page=1615|id=GGKEY:C6Z1Y8ZWS0N}}</ref> Its population as of January 2013 was estimated at 21,276,<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Information: Population|url=http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rep_population.php|publisher=National Institute of Statistics – Tunisia|access-date=3 January 2014|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924035238/http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rep_population.php|url-status=dead}}; up from 15,922 in 2004 ({{cite web|title=Population, ménages et logements par unité administrative|url=http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24411&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer|publisher=National Institute of Statistics – Tunisia|access-date=3 January 2014|language=fr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207015451/http://www.ins.nat.tn/fr/rgph2.1.commune.php?code_modalite=24411&Code_indicateur=0301007&Submit3=Envoyer|archive-date=7 December 2013}})</ref>
mostly attracting the more wealthy residents.<ref>David Lambert, ''Notables des colonies. Une élite de circonstance en Tunisie et au Maroc (1881–1939)'', éd. Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2009, pp. 257–258</ref> If Carthage is not the capital, it tends to be the political pole, a "place of emblematic power" according to [[Sophie Bessis]],<ref name="bessis">{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_09/fr/signes/intro.htm Sophie Bessis,"Défendre Carthage, encore et toujours", ''Le Courrier de l'Unesco'', September 1999] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613164329/http://www.unesco.org/courier/1999_09/fr/signes/intro.htm |date=2007-06-13 }}</ref> leaving to Tunis the economic and administrative roles. The [[Carthage Palace]] (the Tunisian presidential palace) is located in the coast.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=648961&publicationSubCategoryId=200|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908214230/http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=648961&publicationSubCategoryId=200|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 September 2012|agency=philSTAR.com|title=More Tunisia unrest: Presidential palace gunbattle|date=17 January 2011|access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref>

The suburb has six train stations of the [[Tunis-Goulette-Marsa|TGM]] line between Le Kram and Sidi Bou Said:
Carthage Salammbo (named for the ancient children's cemetery where it stands), Carthage Byrsa (named for [[Byrsa]] hill), Carthage Dermech (''Dermèche''), Carthage Hannibal (named for [[Hannibal]]), Carthage Présidence (named for the [[Carthage Palace|Presidential Palace]]) and Carthage Amilcar (named for [[Hamilcar Barca|Hamilcar]]).
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