List of Phoenician cities
This is a list of cities and colonies of Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel and Palestine, as well as cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Phoenician colonies
Levant
Lebanon
Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey
North Africa
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
- 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
Italy
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- capital city
References
- Peter Whitfield (2005). Cities of the World: A History in Maps. University of California Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-520-24725-3.
- Nathan Laughlin Pilkington (2013). An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism. Academic Commons, Columbia.edu (Thesis). Columbia University. p. 170. doi:10.7916/D80G3SCF. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- David Wright; Patrick Swift (1 January 1971). Lisbon: a portrait and a guide. Barrie and Jenkins. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-214-65309-4.
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