Ténès is a town in Algeria located around 200 kilometers west of the capital Algiers. As of 2000, it has a population of 65,000 people. Ténès was founded as a Phoenician port in or before the 8th century BC. As with other Phoenician harbors, it fell under the hegemony of Carthage around the 6th century BC and of the Romans after the Punic Wars. Its Puni…Ténès is a town in Algeria located around 200 kilometers west of the capital Algiers. As of 2000, it has a population of 65,000 people. Ténès was founded as a Phoenician port in or before the 8th century BC. As with other Phoenician harbors, it fell under the hegemony of Carthage around the 6th century BC and of the Romans after the Punic Wars. Its Punic name was Latinized as Cartenna or Cartennae, a plural which suggested the existence of a separate Berber settlement nearby. Ptolemy mentions that the local tribes were known as the "Bakoyta". The city rose to colony status under the empire.
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