List of Phoenician cities
For other uses of "Phoenicia", see Phoenicia (disambiguation).
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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
- Baalbek
- Botrys
- Berut
- Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization
- Sarepta
- Tripoli, Lebanon
Syria
Israel
Eastern Mediterranean / Turkey
- 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
North Africa
Algeria
Libya
- Oea
- Sabratha
- Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline
Morocco
Tunisia
- 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
Cyprus
France
Italy
- Genoa
- Motya
- Soluntum
- Venice
- Lilybaeum, also known as Marsala
- Nora
- Sulcis
- Tharros
- Olbia
- Cagliari
- Palermo
Malta
Spain
- 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
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