Phoenician and Carthaginian
Tingis
Today: Tánger, Morocco
- Years
- 600 BCE–146 BCE
The port at the end of the Strait, which Ionian sailors already name in the 6th century BCE as Thigge or Thinge, as Hecataeus of Miletus records. From the 4th century BCE it appears as a Carthaginian trading post and struck coin with its name, Tng, in Punic letters. Of that town some traces of Phoenician presence survive, owed most likely to its excellent harbour, but nothing of this era is on view today: what is ancient in the region is kept in the Kasbah Museum.