Round 11: Tossup 2

This modern-day country was the birthplace of a governor of Britain who lost the Battle of Lugdunum to Septimius Severus. In 439 CE Gaiseric captured a city in this country, which then became the capital of the Vandal (15[1])Kingdom. A city in this country was captured in 146 BCE after (*) Hasdrubal surrendered to Scipio Aemilianus. Tactics named for Fabius Maximus were used against a general from this modern-day country who won the Battle of Cannae. Roman soldiers apocryphally salted the area of a city in this modern day country destroyed at the end of the Third Punic War. For 10 points, what North African country is home to the ancient ruins of Carthage? ■END■

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