List of Phoenician cities
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This is a list of cities and colonies of Phoenicia in modern-day Lebanon, coastal Syria, northern Israel, as well as cities founded or developed by the Phoenicians in the Eastern Mediterranean area, North Africa, Southern Europe, and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea.
Lebanon
- Tyre - One of the two leading-city states of Phoenicia and one of the most important ports in ancient Phoenicia, and Lebanon today.
- Sydon - One of the two leading city-states of Phoenicia
- Ampi
- Amia
- Arqa
- Baalbek
- Botrys
- Berut
- Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization
- Sarepta
- Tripoli, Lebanon
Syria
Israel / Occupied Palestine
Eastern Mediterranean
North Africa
Algeria
Libya
- Oea
- Sabratha
- Leptis Magna - major city on the Libyan coastline
- Tripoli - capital
Morocco
- Lixus
- Tangier
- Mehidya (ancient Thymaterion)
- El-Jadida (ancient Gytte)
- Oualidia (ancient Melitta)
- Sala
Morocco or Mauritania
- Cerne (Unknown whether Cerne was in Morocco or Mauritania)
Tunisia
- Carthage - the most powerful of the Phoenician settlements, eventually being destroyed by the Romans
- Utica - earliest settlement in Africa
- Hippo Diarrhytus - now Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa
- Hadrumetum
- Ruspina
- Leptis Parva
- Thapsus
- Kerkouane
- Zama Regia - the last place Hannibal fought and the place where his first and only major defeat occurred
- Vaga