6th century BC

Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in present-day Lebanon and parts of coastal Syria. Their maritime civilization expanded and contracted over time, with its cultural core stretching from Arwad to Mount Carmel. Through trade and colonization, the Phoenicians extended their influence across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula, leaving behind thousands of inscriptions.

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year

battle

battle between Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire

final battle of the Persian conquest of Babylonia

solar eclipse

a battle for establishing the greatest empire of east

ancient battle

colonization of the Iberian peninsula by Carthage

ancient battle

ancient settlement in Ukraine