The history of coastal cities can be fascinating for history buffs.

Queen Dido was the founder and first Queen of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia on the coast of North Africa according to ancient Greek and Roman sources.

She was able to carve out this property through a clever proposal: she asked a piece of land from the local Berber king Iarbas, but only so much that she could enclose using the hide of an ox.

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