They moved into the area of today’s Lebanon and western Syria andbrought them under control. The fact that the Phoenicians wereestablished in independent city-states meant that unifiedresistance was not a problem to the Persians. However they did notget as far as the Carthaginian colony of Carthage which remainedindependent and active until demolished by an expending Rome.

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