When do most historians cite as the beginning of Carthage

Most historians cite the year 814 BC BCE as the founding of thecity state of Carthage. Historians generally post Carthage’sfoundation from Phoenicians from Tyre in the Eastern MediterraneanSea. Carthage’s location was close the modern country of Tunis. ThePhoenicians were a Semitic people and a seafaring people as well.The name “Phoenician” was what they were called by the Greeks. TheRomans called them “Poeni” from which the term Punic is derived.