List of Phoenician cities

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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

• Sur - One of the two leading-city states of Phoenicia and the most important seaport
• Sydon - One of the two leading city-states of Phoenicia
• Ampi
• Amia
• Arqa
• Baalbek
• Botrys
• Berut
• Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization
• Sarepta
• Tripoli, Lebanon

Syria

• Arvad
• Ugarit
• Latakia - also known by its Phoenician name was Ramitha

Israel

• Acre
• Ashkelon
• Jaffa
• Haifa

Eastern Mediterranean / Turkey

• Myriandrus - in modern-day Turkey
• Sam'al - Cilicia; in modern-day Turkey. Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia
• Karatepe
• Finike - historically known as Phoenicus

North Africa

Algeria

• Tipaza

Libya

• Oea
• Sabratha
• Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline

Morocco

• Lixus
• Mogador
• Tangier

Tunisia

• Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans
• Utica - earliest settlement in Africa
• Hippo Diarrhytus - now Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa
• Hadrumetum
• Leptis Parva
• Thapsus
• Kerkouane
• Zama Regia - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only major defeat occurred
• Vaga

Europe / Elsewhere

Cyprus

• Kition, also known as Citium (in Latin).

France

• Marseilles

Italy

• Genoa
• Motya
• Soluntum
• Venice
• Lilybaeum, also known as Marsala
• Nora
• Sulcis
• Tharros
• Olbia
• Cagliari
• Palermo

Malta

• Mdina
• Rabat
• Burmula, (Bormla/Cospicua)De Soldanis/G.F. Abela/Achille Ferris

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
• La Fonteta (Guardamar del Segura)
• Trayamar
• Baria(Villaricos)
• Abdera
• Málaga
• Huelva
• Ibiza
• Lixus
• Barcelona (according to one legend another says it's Greek)
• Huelva
• Lebrija
• San Roque
• Tarragona

Sources

• Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient