Phoenicie

Phoenicie (frae the Greek: Φοινίκη, romanised: Foiníki, Phoiníkē; Arabic: فينيقية‎, Finiqyah) wis an auncient Semitic civilisation situate on the wastern coastal pairt o the Fertile Crescent, centred on the coastline o modren Lebanon an the Tartus Territory in Syrie. Aw major Phoenician ceeties wis on the coastlines of the Mediterranean, some colonies reakin the Wastern Mediterranean coastlines. It wis an enterprisin maritime traditional culture that spread aw alang the Mediterranean sea frae 1550 BC till 300 BC. The Phoenicians uised the galley, a man-pouert sailin vesseln an wis likely the first tae uise the bireme. They were famous in Classical Greece an forby Rome, as "traders in purpie", referrin tae thair monopoly on the precious purpie dye o the Murex snail, uised, amang ither things, fur dyeing claes. Thay were forby kent fur thair spread o the alphabet (or abjad), frae whilk awmaist aw modren phonetic alphabets is derived.

Φοινίκη Phoenicia
1200 BC–539 BC
Cairt o Phoenicia an trade routes
Caipital	Byblos (1200 BC–1000 BC) Tyre (1000 BC–333 BC)
Common leids	Phoenician, Punic
Releegion	Canaanite releegion
Govrenment	Kingship (Ceety-states)
Well-known keengs o Phoenician ceeties
• c. 1000 BC	Ahiram
• 969 BC – 936 BC	Hiram I
• 820 BC – 774 BC	Pygmalion o Tyre
Historical era	Classical antiquity
• Established	1200 BC
• Tyre, unner the reign o Hiram I, becomes the dominant ceety-state	969 BC
• Pygmalion foonds Carthage (legendary)	814 BC
• Cyrus the Great conquers Phoenicie	539 BC
Population
• 1200 BC	200,000
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Canaanites Achaemenid Phoenicie Auncient Carthage
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