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History

The File and the Soil

Carthage, Rome, and the African Exception.

Spain keeps the Visigoths and Italy keeps the Lombards, though both were foreign, Arian, and gone. The Vandal kings ruled from Carthage for ninety-five years, struck silver reading Felix Karthago, and in 455 sailed from here to sack Rome. Tunisia keeps Hannibal, the Aghlabids, and the Turks, and files this century under Germany.

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