| Kingdom of Africa Regnum du Afrikae (African) Timeline: Rebirth of Carthage
ⵜⴰⴳⵍⴷⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵉⴼiⵕⵉⵇ (Berber) OTL equivalent: Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, West Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Cabo Verde, Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia | ||||||
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| Motto: The Old, the True, the Brave |
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| Anthem: "Hannibal's March" |
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| Capital (and largest city) | Carthage | |||||
| Other cities | Cirta, Annaba, Tripoli, Tingi, Euesperides, Timbuktu, Kumasi, Saint Dihya, etc. | |||||
| Official languages | African and Berber | |||||
| Regional languages | Arabic, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Tamasheg, Pular, Soninke, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosaetc, Swazi, etc. | |||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic Church Islam Libyan Polytheistic religions |
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| Demonym | African | |||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy | |||||
| - | King | Hannibal XIV | ||||
| - | Prime Minister | Aksil Jlassi | ||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||
| - | Upper house | House of Shophets | ||||
| - | Lower house | House of Representatives | ||||
| Establishment | ||||||
| - | Ancient Carthage inaugurated | 814 BC | ||||
| - | Kingdom of Africa inaugurated | 530 AC | ||||
| - | Current Constitution | 9 February 1978 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 12,271,733 km2 4,738,142 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | 2021 estimate | 341,960,482 | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $17,946 trillion | ||||
| - | Per capita | $52.480 | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $14,956 trillion | ||||
| - | Per capita | $43.736 | ||||
| Currency | African Shekel | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .af | |||||
| Calling code | AFS | |||||
Africa, officially the Kingdom of Africa, is a sovereign state located in the Libyan continent's northwestern and southern territories. Founded in 530 AC, Africa is one of the oldest continuously existing countries in the world. Its capital and largest city is Carthage. It consists of one federal capital city region (Carthage) and 31 federal provinces.
The city of Carthage was founded by the Phoenician civilization in 814 BC and thrived at the most powerful city state and a maritime empire along the Mediterranean Sea until it got into three wars with the rising Roman Republic, which sacked the city after the Third Punic War and annexed the area.
The city and territory (the lands along the Mediterranean) would remain Roman territory until Carthage was taken by the Vandals in 435 AC. The Eastern Roman Empire retook the territory for a few years in the early 6th century only to be defeated by rise of the Berbers from the south. United by King Iabdas I of the Kingdom of Aures, he led the Berbers to victory against the Romans and took Carthage, declaring it the capital of his kingdom and himself as King of Africa, eventually swearing nominal loyalty to the Roman Emperor in Constantinople taking upon himself to Christianize the other Berber tribes. Upon the Arab invasion of their lands, Queen Dihya managed to successfully repel them twice forcing the Arabs to abandon further conquests in the western Mediterranean.
Over the following centuries, Africa was often at war with the Muslim states to the east, although by the 17th century, those amounted to little more than border skirmishes which ended in 1789 with the Peace of Alexandria, which formally established the borders between the Kingdom of Africa and the Ottoman Empire. The Kingdom of Africa drew on the identity of the Ancient Carthaginian Empire for legitimacy, taking up its symbol (the symbol of Tanit, the Carthaginian patron goddess) and presenting themselves as the successor state of the ancient extinct civilization.
The 16th century saw the great expansion of the Kingdom's frontiers as the Africans focused their Atlantic fleets to establish trade colonies along the Libyan coastline, which eventually expanded inwards with Africa vastly expanding its territories by conquering all the fledgling countries in their path.