List of Phoenician cities
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[edit] List of Phoenician City-States and Colonies
This is a list of cities of Phoenicia proper, modern-day Lebanon, and those founded by the Phoenicians upon Africa, Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea
Levant:
- 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
- Acre;pom
- Caesarea - A quasi-Phoenician seaport
- Karatepe
- Samal
- Ugarit
- Ashkelon
North Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, and Spain:
- Carthage - The most powerful of the Phoenician settlements,
eventually being destroyed by the Romans
- Gades - Earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain
- Utica - Earliest settlement in Africa
- Tipasa - Africa
- Siga - Africa
- Lixus - Africa
- Mogador - Africa
- Motya - Sicily
- Nora - Balearic Islands
- Sulcis - Balearic Islands
- Tharros - Balearic Islands
- Bithia - Sardinia
- Olbia - Sardinia
- Cádiz - Spain
- Almuñécar - Spain
- Trayamar - Spain
- Villaricos - Spain
- Myriandrus - Turkey
- Abdera
- Carmo
- Malaca
- Ibiza
- Arados - Syria
- Cartagena - Spain; the capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage over his conquests over the Iberian tribes
- Kition - Cyprus
- Leptis - Libya
- Oia - Libya
- Sabrata - Libya
Elsewhere
- Genoa - Britain
- Marseille
- Ugarit
- Latakia
- Samal - Cilicia; Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia
- Karatepe - Taurus Mountains; also protecting the same passage
- Citium - Cyprus; principal Phoenician city there
- Leptis Magna - Major city on the Libyan coastline
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