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Encyclopedia4U - Phoenicia - Encyclopedia Article (1517 words) |
 | The Phoenicians established commercial outposts throughout the Mediterranean, the most notable being Carthage in North Africa, with others in Cyprus, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Spain (the name Spain came from a Phoenician word, which means 'rabbit coast'), and elsewhere. |
| With the rise of Assyria, the Phoenician cities one by one lost their independence, and afterwards were dominated by Babylonia and then by Persia. |
| With the rise of ethnic nationalism in the 19th century and the destructive clashes of ethnicities in the Phoenician homeland during the 20th century, these theories of foreign or autochthonous ethnic origins of Phoenicians have tended to be misapplied to further modern agendas and sometimes have taken on rabid urgency. |
| Phoenicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2676 words) |
| Many of the most important Phoenician settlements had been established long before this: Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Simyra, Aradus and Berytus all appear in the Amarna tablets; and indeed, the first appearance in archaeology of cultural elements clearly identifiable with the Phoenician zenith is sometimes dated as early as the third millennium BC. |
| Phoenician trade was founded on this violet-purple dye derived from the Murex sea-snail's shell, once profusely available in coastal waters but exploited to local extinction. |
| The fishermen of Nazaré and Aveiro in Portugal are traditionally of Phoenician descent. |
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