Until 308 BC

Carthage Carthage was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classi ...

was ruled, at least officially, by monarchs, in the sense of the word that executive power was held by one person. Andrew Lintott, ''Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City: 750-330 BC'', Routledge, 2014, p. 66. It also seems for the time period below to have been passed down in the clan of the Magonids. The title itself was most likely

Suffete In several ancient Semitic-speaking cultures and associated historical regions, the shopheṭ or shofeṭ (plural shophṭim or shofeṭim; he, שׁוֹפֵט ''šōfēṭ'', phn, 𐤔𐤐𐤈 ''šōfēṭ'', xpu, 𐤔𐤐𐤈 ''šūfeṭ'', ...

. Didonian *

Dido Dido ( ; , ), also known as Elissa ( , ), was the legendary founder and first queen of the Phoenician city-state of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), in 814 BC. In most accounts, she was the queen of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre (t ...

814 – c. 760 BC (queen) * ''unknown'' * Hanno I c. 580 – c. 556 BC * Malchus I c. 556 – c. 550 BC Magonids *

Mago I MagoI, also known as Magon ( xpu, 𐤌𐤂‬𐤍‬, ), was the king of the Ancient Carthage from 550 BC to 530 BC and the founding monarch of the Magonid dynasty of Carthage.

c. 550 – c. 530 BC * Hasdrubal I c. 530 – c. 510 BC * Hamilcar I c. 510–480 BC * Hanno II 480–440 BC * Himilco I (in Sicily) 460–410 BC * Hannibal I 440–406 BC * Himilco II 406–396 BC * Mago II 396–375 BC * Mago III 375–344 BC * Hanno III 344–340 BC Hannonian * Hanno I 340–337 BC * Gisco 337–330 BC * Hamilcar II 330–309 BC * Bomilcar 309–308 BC In 480 BC, following Hamilcar I's death, the king lost most of his power to an aristocratic Council of Elders. In 308 BC, Bomilcar attempted a coup to restore the monarch to full power, but failed, which led to Carthage becoming a republic.

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