List of Phoenician cities

Contents 1 List of Phoenician city-states and colonies 2 Levant 2.1 Lebanon 2.2 Syria 2.3 Israel / Palestine 3 Eastern Mediterranean / Turkey 4 North Africa 4.1 Algeria 4.2 Libya 4.3 Morocco 4.4 Tunisia 4.5 Others 5 Mediterranean islands 6 Spain 7 Europe / Elsewhere 8 Sources

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

• 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
• Baalbeck
• Botrys
• Berut
• Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization
• Sarepta
• Tripoli

Syria

• Arvad
• Ugarit
• Latakia - also known by its Phoenician name was Ramitha

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
• Finike - historically known as Phoenicus

North Africa

Algeria

• Tipasa

Libya

• Oia
• Sabratha
• Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline

Morocco

• Lixus
• Mogador
• Tangier

Tunisia

• Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans
• Utica - earliest settlement in Africa
• Hadrumetum
• Leptis Parva
• Thapsus
• Kerkouane
• Zama - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only major defeat occurred

Others

• Siga - Africa

Mediterranean islands

• Citium, also known as Kition - Principal Phoenician city in Cyprus
• Motya - in Sicily
• Soluntum in Sicily
• Lilybaeum- in sicily modern day Marsala
• Nora - in Sardinia
• Sulcis - in Sardinia
• Tharros - in Sardinia
• Olbia - in Sardinia
• Ibiza - part of modern-day Spain
• Cagliari
• Palermo

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
• Huelva
• Tangier
• Lixus
• Barcelona (according to one legend another says it's Greek)
• Huelva
• Lebrija
• San Roque
• Tarragona

Europe / Elsewhere

• Genoa
• Marseille

Sources

• Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient