List of Phoenician cities
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This is a list of cities and colonies of Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel, as well as cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Levant
=Lebanon=
=Syria=
=Israel=
Eastern Mediterranean
=Turkey=
=Cyprus=
North Africa
=Algeria=
=Libya=
- Oea
- Sabratha
- Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline
- Tripoli - capital
=Morocco=
=Morocco or Mauritania=
- Cerne (Unknown whether Cerne was in Morocco or Mauritania)
=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
- Ruspina
- 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
=France=
=Italy=
=Malta=
=Monaco=
=Portugal=
- Lisbon-capital city{{cite book|author=Peter Whitfield|title=Cities of the World: A History in Maps|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WS4jgVqnck8C&pg=PA99|year=2005|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24725-3|page=99}}{{cite thesis|author1=Nathan Laughlin Pilkington|title=An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism|url=http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/item/ac:159452|website=Academic Commons, Columbia.edu|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=19 August 2014|page=170|year=2013|doi=10.7916/D80G3SCF}}{{cite book|author1=David Wright|author2=Patrick Swift|title=Lisbon: a portrait and a guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIMnAQAAMAAJ&q=%22excavations%22 |date=1 January 1971|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-65309-4|page=150}}
=Spain=
- Cádiz also known as Gades - earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain
- Cartagena - the capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage after conquering the Iberian tribes
- Kartuba
- Almuñécar
- Rusadir
- La Fonteta (Guardamar del Segura)
- Trayamar
- Baria-Villaricos
- Abdera
- Málaga
- Huelva
- Ibiza
- Lebrija
- San Roque
- Barcelona
Sources
- [http://lexicorient.com/e.o/phoenicia.htm Phoenicia - From the Encyclopedia of the Orient]
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