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TIL Carthage in Phoenician means "New City". Cartagena (Spain) in Latin means "New Carthage". Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) was named 'de Indias' as it was named after Cartagena (Spain)—it can be interpreted as "New Cartagena". Therefore the city can basically be read as "New New New City"

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