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Megara (Ancient Greek: Μέγαρα, Medieval Greek: Μεγαλία) was an agricultural suburb within the walls of ancient Carthage. According to Appian, "Megara was planted with gardens and was full of fruit-bearing trees divided off by low walls, hedges, and brambles, besides deep ditches full of water running in every direction..." Serge Lancel identifies Megara with a large area north of Byrsa, east of Sidi Daoud, and west of Sidi Bou Said, roughly corresponding to present-day La Marsa.

In literature

Megara is an important setting in Gustave Flaubert's 1862 novel Salammbô, and is especially known in the Francophone world from that novel's incipit: "C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar." (transl. "It was in Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.")