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==History==
Carthage entered history in the centuries before [[Christ]] as a rival of the emerging city-state of Rome. After the area was conquered by Roman, it was colonized by Roman settlers. As Christianity spread into the area in the first and second centuries, the Roman settlers and Romanized Berbers became Christians and the region became a center of Latin-speaking Orthodoxy under the [[Bishop]] and later [[Pope]] of Rome and produced such prominent Orthodox Christians as the writer [[Tertullian]], the [[martyr]]ed Bishop [[Cyprian of Carthage]], the righteous [[Monica of Hippo|Monica]], and her son the Blessed Bishop [[Augustine of HIppoHippo]].
During these early centuries the area was also shaken by various [[heresy|heresies]] and [[schism]]s. In the fifth century, the invading Vandals brought [[Arianism]] which created tensions between the Roman settlers and native Berbers. By the late seventh century, these tensions became welcoming sore points for the invading [[Muslim]] Arabs as the dissident Berbers gradually accepted [[Islam]] and the Latin-speaking people began migrating to Europe. By the end of the eleventh century, Christianity had virtually disappeared in the area that came to be known as Tunisia. Islam became the religion of Tunisia
