HasdrubalI (, ''ʿAzrubaʿal'', "Help of
Baal
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") was a
Magonid king
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of
Ancient Carthage
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, a kingdom with its capital, Carthage, located in present-day
Tunisia
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, from 530 to 510BC.
Rule
In the mid 520sBC, Hasdrubal, along with his brother
Hamilcar I, launched an expedition against
Sardinia
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.
Hasdrubal was elected as "King" eleven times, was granted a triumph four times (the only Carthaginian to receive this honour – there is no record of anyone else being honoured to that extent by Carthage) and died of his battle wounds received in Sardinia. Carthage had engaged in a 25-year struggle in Sardinia, where the natives may have received aid from
Sybaris
Sybaris (; ) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.
The city was founded around 720 BC by Achaeans (tribe), Achaean and Troezenian settlers and the Achaeans also went on ...
, then the richest city in
Magna Graecia
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and an ally of the Phocaeans. The Carthaginians faced resistance from
Nora and
Sulci
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in Sardinia, while
Carales and
Tharros had submitted willingly to Carthaginian rule. Hasdrubal's war against the Libyans failed to stop the annual tribute payment.
Around this time, the Carthaginians managed to defeat and drive away the colonisation attempt near
Leptis Magna
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by #Names, other names in classical antiquity, antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean.
Established as a Punic people, Puni ...
in Libya by the Spartan prince
Dorieus after three years. Dorieus was later defeated and killed at
Eryx in Sicily (around 510BC) while attempting to establish a foothold in Western Sicily.
See also
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Other Hasdrubals in Carthaginian history
References
Citations
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Magonids
Monarchs of Carthage
6th-century BC monarchs
6th-century BC Punic people
510s BC deaths