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
  • Byblos - One of the oldest sites of civilization


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
  • Trayamar - Spain
  • Villaricos - Spain
  • Carmo
  • Malaca
  • Cartagena - Spain; the capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage over his conquests over the Iberian tribes

Elsewhere

  • Samal - Cilicia; Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia

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