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Apr 28, 2016 · The ancient historian Diodorus claimed that the Phoenicians reached the Atlantic islands of Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Azores. There is, though, no archaeological evidence of direct Phoenician contact, only the discovery in 1749 CE of eight Carthaginian coins dating to the 3rd century BCE.
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Sep 29, 2017 · Acclaimed throughout the Mediterranean world for their luxury goods, the Phoenicians developed into an alliance of coastal cities around 1550 B.C. and established colonies as far as Iberia, but they never coalesced into a nation.
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. [1] [2] At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.
The name Phoenician, used to describe these people in the first millennium B.C., is a Greek invention, from the word phoinix, possibly signifying the color purple-red and perhaps an allusion to their production of a highly prized purple dye.
The Phoenicians are credited with creating the first colonies and pioneering the concept of trading consumer products for raw materials on a large scale. The Phoenicians began migrated to the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 B.C. beginning with Cyprus.
Aug 4, 2023 · The Phoenicians were known for establishing several important city-states throughout the Mediterranean region, primarily along the coast of modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and northern Israel. These city-states were not unified under a single political entity but shared cultural and linguistic ties.
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Around 1600 B.C. the Phoenicians invented 22 ‘magic signs’ called the alphabet, and passed them onto the world. The Phoenicians gave the alphabet to the Greeks who adopted it; the evolution of the Phoenician Alphabet led to the Latin letters of present-day.
