Ancient Carthage the site of the city. Nearly all of the other Phoenician city-states and former Carthaginian dependencies subsequently fell into Roman hands. According to Roman sources, Phoenician colonists from modern-day Lebanon, led by Dido (also known as Queen Elissa), founded Carthage "circa" 814 BC. Queen Elissa (also known as "Alissar") was an exiled princess of the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre. At its peak, the metropolis she founded, Carthage, came to be called the "shining city", ruling 300 other cities around the western Mediterranean Sea and leading the Phoenician world. Elissa's brother, Pygmalion of Tyre, had murdered Elissa's husband, the high
Fido Dido in the United Kingdom, Fido Dido appeared in his own magazine. The first edition introduced his family, and was titled "Meet the Fidos". It was published by Ravette Publishing. In 1993, a video game called "Fido Dido" was made by Kaneko for the Super NES and Sega Genesis. However, it was never released, because the publisher Kaneko's United States branch shut down in the summer of 1994. There was a Neopets sponsor game starring Fido Dido. In the early 1990s, Fido Dido had a comic strip in the teenage magazine "YM". Fido Dido appears in the animated short "Logorama", as