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# Phoenicia
# Phoenicia
## Overview
Phoenicia (~1500–300 BCE) was a maritime civilization of city-states along the coast of modern Lebanon. The Phoenicians were master sailors and traders who developed the alphabet that became the ancestor of Greek, Latin, and most modern alphabets.
## Key Facts
- Region: Coastal Lebanon, with colonies across the Mediterranean
- Period: ~1500–300 BCE
- Major cities: Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Berytus (Beirut)
- Language: Phoenician (Northwest Semitic)
- Writing: Phoenician alphabet (~1050 BCE), ancestor of Greek and Latin alphabets [^1]
## Achievements
- Developed the first widely-used phonetic alphabet ~1050 BCE
- Founded Carthage (~814 BCE) and colonies across the western Mediterranean
- Pioneered long-distance maritime trade (tin from Britain, gold from West Africa)
- Produced Tyrian purple dye from murex snails
- Circumnavigated Africa under commission from Pharaoh Necho II (~600 BCE) [^2]
## Decline
Phoenician city-states fell under successive foreign rule: Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and finally Macedonian. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.
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[^1]: Markoe, G. *Phoenicians* (University of California Press, 2000)
[^2]: Herodotus, *Histories* 4.42
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