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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 ...
[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 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).
[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.
Phoenician trade routes 1200 BC–539 BC. Utica was founded as a port located on the trade route leading from Phoenicia to the Straits of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean, facilitating trade in commodities like tin. [8] The exact founding date of Utica is a matter of controversy. Several classical authors date its foundation to around 1100 BC.
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 ...
The Phoenicians established colonies and trading posts across the Mediterranean; Carthage, a settlement in northwest Africa, became a major civilization in its own right in the seventh century BC. The Phoenicians were organized in city-states, similar to those of ancient Greece, of which the most notable were Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos. Each city ...