Why did Phoenicians establish Carthage

The Phoenicians established Carthage because it was located in the center of Northern Africa, a short distance away from Sicily and the Italian Peninsula.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.