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[145] [146] Through their maritime trade, the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to Anatolia, North Africa, and Europe. [ 29 ] [ 147 ] The name Phoenician is by convention given to inscriptions beginning around 1050 BC, because Phoenician , Hebrew , and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.
Map of Phoenician settlements and trade routes. The Phoenician settlement of North Africa or Phoenician expedition to North Africa was the process of Phoenician people migrating and settling in the Maghreb region of North Africa, encompassing present-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, from their homeland of Phoenicia in the Levant region, including present-day Lebanon, Israel, and Syria ...
Map of Phoenicia, trade routes and the Phoenician colony of Carthage It is unclear when the Phoenicians began to seriously colonize North Africa. Writers in antiquity, such as Pliny the Elder , [ 54 ] dated the beginning of the colonization efforts to the 12th and 11th centuries BC, as several legends describe interactions between Phoenician ...
Ancient Greek authors sometimes referred to the mixed Punic inhabitants of North Africa ('Libya') as 'Liby-Phoenicians'. [16] It is unclear what term, if any, the Carthaginians used to refer to themselves. The Phoenician homeland in the Levant was natively known as 𐤐𐤕 (Pūt) and its people as the 𐤐𐤍𐤉𐤌 (Pōnnim).
The city's location made it master of the Mediterranean's maritime trade. All ships crossing the sea had to pass between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia, where Carthage was built, affording it great power and influence. Two large, artificial harbors were built within the city, one for harboring the city's prodigious navy of 220 warships and the ...
Carthage, a Phoenician settlement in northwest Africa, became a major civilization in its own right in the 7th century BC. Since little has survived of Phoenician records or literature , most of what is known about their origins and history comes from the accounts of other civilizations and inferences from their material culture excavated ...
[110] [111] Through their maritime trade, the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to Anatolia, North Africa, and Europe. [ 27 ] [ 112 ] The name Phoenician is by convention given to inscriptions beginning around 1050 BC, because Phoenician , Hebrew , and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time.
Northern Africa in antiquity (map related to the period under Roman rule) The history of North Africa during the period of classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE – 5th century CE) can be divided roughly into the history of Egypt in the east, the history of ancient Libya in the middle and the history of Numidia and Mauretania in the west.