The Phoenicians were a people who maintained a loose commercial empire of independent city-states all throughout the Medittereanean. Originating in the cities of Sidon and Tyre in modern Lebanon/Israel, they founded cities such as Carthage in modern Tunisia and had trading depots in Cyprus, Morocco, Malta, Southern Spain and Somalia. All of these were part of the larger Phoenician world. Their “home base”, as it were, remained in the Levant however, so the geographical features of this area would be those of the coast of south and south-central Lebanon and northern Israel, especially in the South Governorate of Lebanon.

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