List of Phoenician cities

List of Phoenician cities

List of Phoenician City-States and Colonies

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

Lebanon

*Tyre - One of the two leading-city states of Phoenicia and the most important seaport

*Sidon - One of the two leading city-states of Phoenicia

*Berytus - Beirut

*Byblos - One of the oldest sites of civilization

*Tripoli

*Baalbeck

yria

*Arvad

*Ugarit

*Latakia - also known by its Phoenician name was Ramitha

*Arados

Israel / Palestine

*Acre

*Ashkelon

Eastern Mediterranean / Turkey

*Myriandrus - in modern-day Turkey

*Samal - Cilicia; in modern-day Turkey. Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia

*Karatepe

*Samal

North Africa

Algeria

*Tipasa

Lybia

*Leptis

*Oia

*Sabratha

*Leptis Magna - Major city on the Libyan coastline

Morocco

*Lixus

*Mogador

Tunisia

*Carthage - The most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans

*Utica - Earliest settlement in Africa

*Hadrumetum

Others

*Siga - Africa

Mediterranean Islands

*Citium / also known as Kition - Principal Phoenician city in Cyprus

*Motya - in Sicily

*Nora - in Sardinia

*Sulcis - in Sardinia

*Tharros - in Sardinia

*Bithia - in Sardinia

*Olbia - Sardinia

*Ibiza - Part of modern-day Spain

Spain

*Cádiz also known as Gades - Earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain

*Cartagena - The capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage over his conquests over the Iberian tribes

*Almuñécar

*Trayamar

*Villaricos

*Abdera

*Malaga

Europe / Elsewhere

*Genoa

*Marseille

ources

* [http://www.phoenician.org/carthage_colonies.htm Carthage and Phoenician Colonies]
* [http://lexicorient.com/e.o/phoenicia.htm Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient]


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