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- In 1643, Governor Johan Printz arrived and built Fort Elfsborg and Fort New Gothenburg at Tinicum Island, nearby today’s Philadelphia airport. A small park with a statue to Printz commemorates the location. This marks the first permanent settlement by Europeans in Pennsylvania.
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The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Might we not resurrect the western Phoenician civilization by excavating an undestroyed sister of Carthage? The authorities are still the Bible, the Greek Herodotus (480-425 B.C.), and the Sicilian Diodorus (first century B.C.)
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 Phoenicians came to prominence ...
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815. ABSTRACT. icans have lived in the Susquehanna River Valley for at least 10,000 years. Archaeological research along the banks of the river has discovered a rich prehistory stretching from the Paleoindian era through the .
Mar 16, 2024 · Undeterred, the Phoenicians decided to establish a settlement in the region surrounding the falls. They named it Havenbrook, a sanctuary from the storms of war that had driven them across the seas. The Phoenicians, skilled in the arts of trade and diplomacy, forged alliances with the native tribes.
Apr 14, 2016 · Some of the Phoenician colonies, like Leptis Magna, Cadiz, and Palermo, became important cities in their own right, and none more so than Carthage on the north coast of Africa, which would eventually outshine its mother city of Tyre and create an empire of its own.
The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now Pennsylvania. In 1681, Pennsylvania became an English colony when William Penn received a royal deed from King Charles II of England.
