Phoenicie
1200 BC–539 BC | |||||||||||
![]() Cairt o Phoenicia an trade routes | |||||||||||
Caipital | Coordinates:34°07′N35°39′E/ 34.117°N 35.650°E | ||||||||||
Common leids | Phoenician,Punic | ||||||||||
Releegion | Canaanite releegion | ||||||||||
Govrenment | Kingship(Ceety-states) | ||||||||||
Well-known keengs o Phoenician ceeties | |||||||||||
• c. 1000 BC | Ahiram | ||||||||||
• 969 BC – 936 BC | Hiram I | ||||||||||
• 820 BC – 774 BC | Pygmalion o Tyre | ||||||||||
Historical era | Classical antiquity | ||||||||||
• Established | 1200 BC | ||||||||||
• Tyre, unner the reign o Hiram I, becomes the dominant ceety-state | 969 BC | ||||||||||
• Pygmalion foondsCarthage(legendary) | 814 BC | ||||||||||
•Cyrus the Greatconquers Phoenicie | 539 BC | ||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||
• 1200 BC[1] | 200,000 | ||||||||||
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Phoenicie(frae theGreek:Φοινίκη,romanised:Foiníki,Phoiníkē;Arabic:فينيقية,Finiqyah) wis an auncientSemiticcivilisation situate on the wastern coastal pairt o theFertile Crescent,centred on the coastline o modrenLebanonan theTartus TerritoryinSyrie.Aw major Phoenician ceeties wis on the coastlines of the Mediterranean, some colonies reakin the Wastern Mediterranean coastlines. It wis an enterprisinmaritime traditional culturethat spread aw alang theMediterraneansea frae 1550 BC till 300 BC. The Phoenicians uised thegalley,a man-pouert sailin vesseln an wis likely the first tae uise thebireme.[2]They were famous in Classical Greece an forby Rome, as "traders in purpie", referrin tae thair monopoly on the precious purpie dye o theMurexsnail, uised, amang ither things, fur dyeing claes. Thay were forby kent fur thair spread o thealphabet(orabjad), frae whilk awmaist aw modren phonetic alphabets is derived.
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑"Phoenicia".The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition.Houghton Mifflin Company. 2001. p. 1. Archived fraethe originalon 28 Juin 2008.Retrieved11 December2008.
The Rise of Sidon
- ↑Casson, Lionel (1 December 1995).Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World.The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 57–58.ISBN978-0-8018-5130-8.