Saint Augustine was born in the town of Tagaste in the Roman Province of Numidia in North Africa. The town Tagaste was located in the north-east highlands of Numidia which was sixty miles from Hippo. Hippo was known as the sea-side city where Augustine spent his last forty years of life. Hippo was fifteen miles from Madura which was where St. Augustine went to prep school. The town was also one-hundred fifty miles from Carthage on the coast of Tunisia which was where St. Augustine grew his education strong and this was also where St. Augustine's teaching career started. The town Carthage was known as the the grand of all the land. Carthage was found by the Phoenicians nine centuries before Christ's coming. The town Carthage was destroyed by