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Phoenician Settlements
Background
List of Phoenician city-states and colonies[edit]
This is a list of cities of Phoenicia proper, modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria and northern Israel/Palestine and those cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in the Levant / Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Levant[edit]
Lebanon[edit]
Sur - One of the two leading-city states of Phoenicia and the most important seaport
Sydon - One of the two leading city-states of Phoenicia
Ampi
Amia
Arqa
Baalbek
Botrys
Berut
Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization
Sarepta
Tripoli, Lebanon
Syria[edit]
Arvad
Ugarit
Latakia - also known by its Phoenician name was Ramitha
Palestine
Palestine[edit]
Acre
Ashkelon
Jaffa
Haifa
Eastern Mediterranean[edit]
Turkey[edit]
Myriandrus - in modern-day Turkey
Sam'al - Cilicia; in modern-day Turkey. Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia
Karatepe
Finike - historically known as Phoenicus
Cyprus[edit]
Kition, also known as Citium (in Latin).
North Africa[edit]
Algeria[edit]
Tipaza
Libya[edit]
Oea
Sabratha
Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline
Morocco[edit]
Lixus
Mogador
Tangier
Tunisia[edit]
Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans
Utica - earliest settlement in Africa
Hippo Diarrhytus - now Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa
Hadrumetum
Leptis Parva
Thapsus
Kerkouane
Zama Regia - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only major defeat occurred
Vaga
Europe / Elsewhere[edit]
Italy[edit]
Genoa
Motya
Soluntum
Venice
Lilybaeum, also known as Marsala
Nora
Sulcis
Tharros
Olbia
Cagliari
Palermo
Malta[edit]
Mdina
Rabat
Burmula, (Bormla/Cospicua)De Soldanis/G.F. Abela/Achille Ferris
Portugal[edit]
Lisbon[1][2][3]
Spain[edit]
Cádiz also known as Gades - earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain
Cartagena - the capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage after conquering the Iberian tribes
Almuñécar
La Fonteta (Guardamar del Segura)
Trayamar
Baria(Villaricos)
Abdera
Málaga
Huelva
Ibiza
Lixus
Barcelona (according to one legend another says it's Greek)
Lebrija
San Roque
Tarragona
Sources[edit]
Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Peter Whitfield (2005). Cities of the World: A History in Maps. University of California Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-520-24725-3.
Jump up ^ Nathan Laughlin Pilkington (2013). "An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism". Academic Commons, Columbia.edu. Columbia University. p. 170. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
Jump up ^ David Wright; Patrick Swift (1 January 1971). Lisbon: a portrait and a guide. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-214-65309-4.
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