ocr: Tunisia has been home to the Zenata Berbers since earliest times and: its history is linked to the rise and fall of the Mediterraneancentered empires. Carthage (near present-day Tunis), founded in the 9th century BC, became the hub of a 1,000-year Phoenician trading empire which linked European and Atrican trading net- works. Tunisia was then: incorporated into the. Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Uttoman and, finally, French empires. 1883 La Marsa Treaty makes Tunisia a. French protectorate, ending its sem-ndependence. Bey of Tunis remains monarch. 1900 Influx ofl French and Italian settlers begins. ...
