List of Phoenician cities
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.
Levant
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
Palestine
- Achziv
- Acre
- Atlit
- Belus
- Tel Tanninim
- Dora
- Elyakhin
- Kabri
- Michal
- Haifa - Tel Shikmona
- Jaffa
- Reshef
- Caesarea
- Tell Abu Hawam
- Tel Mevorakh
Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey
- Myriandus - in modern-day Turkey
- Sam'al - Cilicia; in modern-day Turkey. Fortress city protecting the trade route to Anatolia
- Karatepe
- Finike - historically known as Phoenicus
- Rhosos - according Malalas chronography that city was founded by Cilix, son of Agenor the Phoenician King.
Cyprus
North Africa
Algeria
Libya
Morocco
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
Europe / Elsewhere
France
Italy
- Motya
- Soluntum
- Lilybaeum, also known as Marsala
- Lampas (ancient city)
- Kosyra
- Nora
- Sulcis
- Tharros
- Olbia
- Cagliari- capital of Sardinia
- Palermo- capital of Sicily
Malta
Monaco
Portugal
- Lisbon-capital city
Spain
- Cádiz also known as Gades - earliest Phoenician settlement in Spain
- Cartagena - the capital city founded by Hamilcar Barca of Carthage after conquering the Iberian tribes
- Seville
- Córdoba
- Almuñécar
- Rusadir
- La Fonteta (Guardamar del Segura)
- Baria-Villaricos
- Abdera
- Málaga
- Huelva
- Ibiza
- Lebrija
- San Roque