To be sure, Greeks and Phoenicians were in contact throughout the entire western Mediterranean (and the eastern Mediterranean as well); they met, confronted, and mixed with each other in Spain too, as well as in North Africa, Sardinia, Malta, and in southern Italy as a result of the ...
Levant, somewhere around what we would call Lebanon today. They were seafaring, trading people. Being that they emerged on the Mediterranean they ultimately traveled the southern part of the Mediterranean, conquering all along North Africa, and eventually in their journeys discovering the Balearic ...
The Phoenicia has since moved north to the USA for a stay in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. The expedition aims to prove that the Phoenicians could have reached the Americas 2000 years before Christopher Columbus. Launched by the ...
in referring to the early Phoenicians who inhabited the eastern Mediterranean coast of what is now Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and part of Syria.Phoenicia, as it was called by the Greeks, ranging from the Eleutherus River in the north to Mount Carmel in the south, and extending some distance...
The Phoenicians were the greatest traders in the ancient world for the period between 1000 B.C.E. and 600 B.C.E. These were highly skilled shipbuilders and sailors built strong and fast sailing vessels to carry their goods. They learned how to navigate and how to use the North Star to ...
The Pyrenees mountain range forms an effective land barrier in the northeast, separating the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe, and in the south at Gibraltar the peninsula is separated from North Africa by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. The Atlantic Ocean washes the northern, western, ...
After the brother of Dido (famed for her role in Vergil's Aeneid) killed her husband, Queen Dido fled her palace home in Tyre to settle in Carthage, North Africa, where she sought to buy land for her new settlement. Coming from a nation of merchants she cleverly asked to buy an area...
political or cultural message, rather than because they endorsed the concept of a specifically Phoenician ethnicity. Carthage, for example, embraced its ‘Phoenician’ heritage as a way of enhancing its prestige and authority, consolidating its power in North Africa and encouraging other ‘Phoenician’...
cities in Sicily attempted to drive the Phoenicians from Motya and Panormus (Palermo) in the west of the island. The Carthaginians feared that, if the Greeks won the whole of Sicily, they would move on to Sardinia and beyond, isolating the Phoenicians in North Africa. Their successful ...