Colonia Junonia refers to an Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 colony

Colony

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 established in 122BC under the direction of Gaius Gracchus

Gaius Gracchus

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. The colony was located at the site of the destroyed city of Carthage

Carthage

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, a reason for its widespread unpopularity with Romans. Those superstitious about the site spread reports of ill omens, including a claim that wolves had carried off the boundary stakes. The colony would only last 30 years. Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

 later advised the construction of a city on the site, which was built by his adopted-son Augustus

Augustus

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and named Colonia Julia Carthago.