Phoenicia

The Phoenicians were an ancient people from the cities of Phoenicia, a region that roughly corresponds to present-day Lebanon. The name comes from the Greek authors who wrote about them. Phoenicia has always been divided between several cities, the most important of which were Byblos (Jubayl), Sidon (Sayda), Tyre (Sour) and Arwad, and it is not known whether they were aware of a common identity. Historians have used the adjective «Phoenician» to designate the civilization that flourished in the region between 1200 and 300 BC.