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   Apr 30, 2024 · The Phoenicians were a Semitic people who originated in the Levant region, descendants from the Canaanite cultures that had existed there since at least 2000 BC. Their language, known as Phoenician, was closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Their major cities were Tyre, Byblos, and Sidon.

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3. www.britannica.com › place › PhoeniciaPhoenicia | Definition, Location, History, Religion ...

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   3 days ago · Phoenicia, ancient region along the eastern Mediterranean corresponding to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel. Its location among major trade routes made the Phoenicians notable merchants, traders, and colonizers. The chief cities of Phoenicia included Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, and Beirut.

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   Together with Arados (modern Arvad or Ruad), the island town off the Syrian coast (Pls. Vol., pl. 129), these three issued the main Phoenician coinages during the fifth century. From these inscriptions and coins certain broad historical and cultural information may be gleaned.

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6. education.nationalgeographic.org › resource › firstFirst Rulers of the Mediterranean - National Geographic Society

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   Apr 3, 2024 · Before the Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians ruled the Mediterranean. The core of Phoenician territory was the city-state of Tyre, in what-is-now Lebanon. Phoenician civilization lasted from approximately 1550 to 300 B.C.E., when the Persians, and later the Greeks, conquered Tyre.

7. www.worldhistory.org › article › 897The Phoenicians - Master Mariners - World History Encyclopedia

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   • Leaving The Homeland
   • Phoenician Ships
   • Navigation
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   The Phoenicians became sailors in the first place because of the topography of their homeland, the narrow mountainous strip of land on the coast of the Levant. Travelling between settlements, usually located on rocky peninsulas, was much easier by sea, especially when carrying such cumbersome cargo as cedar wood logs for which the Phoenicians were ...

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   The Phoenicians were famed in antiquity for their ship-building skills, and they were credited with inventing the keel, the battering ram on the bow, and caulking between planks. From Assyrian relief carvings at Nineveh and Khorsabad, and descriptions in texts such as the book of Ezekial in the Bible we know that the Phoenicians had three types of ...

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   The Phoenicians did not have the compass or any other navigational instrument, and so they relied on natural features on coastlines, the stars, and dead-reckoning to guide their way and reach their destination. The most important star to them was the Pole Star of the Ursa Minor constellation and, by way of a compliment to their sea-faring skills, t...

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   Both Herodotus and Thucydides agree that the average speed of an ancient vessel was around 6 miles per hour, and therefore, taking into account stops for bad weather, rest etc., it would have taken, for example, 15 days to sail (and sometimes row) from Greece to Sicily. Colaios sailed from Samosto Gadir (in southern Spain), a distance of 2,000 mile...

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   According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians managed to circumnavigate Africa in a voyage in c. 600 BCE sponsored by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho. Starting from the Red Sea, they sailed westwards in a journey that took three years. The sailors of Phoenicia's most successful colony Carthage were said to have sailed to ancient Britain in an expedition led b...

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   Oct 26, 2020 · The term “Phoenician colonies” has traditionally been used to refer to the new settlements founded by these migrant communities in the western Mediterranean. Among them are the sites of Carthage, Utica, Mozia, Sulky, Ibiza, Malaka, Gadir, and Lixus, to name just a few examples.

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   How did the Phoenicians become famous?

   • Its location along major trade routes led its inhabitants, called Phoenicians, to become notable merchants, traders, and colonizers in the 1st millennium bce. The chief cities of Phoenicia (excluding colonies) included Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, and Berot (modern Beirut). The rise and fall of the Phoenician civilization Overview of the Phoenicians.

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   What did the Phoenicians do for a living?

   • This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet. It was the Phoenicians’ most remarkable and distinctive contribution to arts and civilization. Religious practice in Phoenicia varied by city, each having its own deity or deities.

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   How did the Phoenicians travel?

   • The Phoenicians were outstanding seafarers, successfully traveling the Mediterranean and Red Seas, as well as interior waterways and the coast of the mid-Atlantic. A few historians, however, think the Phoenicians navigated the entire Atlantic Ocean ... more than 700 years before Leif Ericson, and a thousand years before Christopher Columbus.

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   Where did the Phoenicians come from?

   • The Phoenicians were a Semitic people who originated in the Levant region, descendants from the Canaanite cultures that had existed there since at least 2000 BC. Their language, known as Phoenician, was closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. Their major cities were Tyre, Byblos, and Sidon.

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   What cities did the Phoenicians live in?

   • The chief cities of Phoenicia (excluding colonies) included Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, and Berot (modern Beirut). The rise and fall of the Phoenician civilization Overview of the Phoenicians. The designation of “Phoenician” (Greek: Phoinix) is not known to have a reflex native to the Phoenicians.

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   What is a Phoenician colony?

   • The Phoenician diaspora: main Levantine cities and overseas communities The term “Phoenician colonies” has traditionally been used to refer to the new settlements founded by these migrant communities in the western Mediterranean. Among them are the sites of Carthage, Utica, Mozia, Sulky, Ibiza, Malaka, Gadir, and Lixus, to name just a few examples.

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