List of Phoenician cities
- List of Phoenician cities
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
*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
*Berytus - Beirut
*Byblos - One of the oldest sites of civilization
*Tripoli
*Baalbeck
yria
*Arvad
*Ugarit
*Latakia - also known by its Phoenician name was Ramitha
*Arados
Israel / Palestine
*Acre
*Ashkelon
Eastern Mediterranean / Turkey
*Myriandrus - in modern-day Turkey
*Samal - Cilicia; in modern-day Turkey. Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia
*Karatepe
*Samal
North Africa
Algeria
*Tipasa
Lybia
*Leptis
*Oia
*Sabratha
*Leptis Magna - Major city on the Libyan coastline
Morocco
*Lixus
*Mogador
Tunisia
*Carthage - The most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans
*Utica - Earliest settlement in Africa
*Hadrumetum
Others
*Siga - Africa
Mediterranean Islands
*Citium / also known as Kition - Principal Phoenician city in Cyprus
*Motya - in Sicily
*Nora - in Sardinia
*Sulcis - in Sardinia
*Tharros - in Sardinia
*Bithia - in Sardinia
*Olbia - Sardinia
*Ibiza - Part of modern-day Spain
Spain
*Cádiz also known as Gades - Earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain
*Cartagena - The capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage over his conquests over the Iberian tribes
*Almuñécar
*Trayamar
*Villaricos
*Abdera
*Malaga
Europe / Elsewhere
*Genoa
*Marseille
ources
* [http://www.phoenician.org/carthage_colonies.htm Carthage and Phoenician Colonies]
* [http://lexicorient.com/e.o/phoenicia.htm Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient]
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