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Phoenicia under Roman rule describes the Phoenician city states (in the area of modern Lebanon, coastal Syria, the northern part of Galilee, Acre and the Northern Coastal Plain) ruled by Rome from 64 BCE to the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. The area around Berytus (and to a lesser degree around Heliopolis) was the only Latin speaking and ...
Aug 21, 2024 · In 538 Phoenicia passed under the rule of the Achaemenid Persians. The region was later taken by Alexander the Great and in 64 bce was incorporated into the Roman province of Syria; Aradus (Arwād), Sidon, and Tyre, however, retained self-government.
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Syria (Roman province) Phoenicia (/ fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə /), [4] or Phœnicia, or the Phoenician city-states, were an ancient Semitic maritime civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5][6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and ...
History of Phoenicia. Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. [ 1 ][ 2 ] At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula.
- The Purple People
- Trading Middlemen
- Tyre & Sidon
- Alexander Conquers Phoenicia
- Roman Phoenicia
The purple dye manufactured and used in Tyre for the robes of Mesopotamian royalty gave Phoenicia the name by which we know it today (from the Greek Phoinikes for Tyrian Purple) and also accounts for the Phoenicians being known as 'purple people' by the Greeks (as the Greek historian Herodotustells us) because the dye would stain the skin of the wo...
The Phoenicians were primarily known as sailors who had developed a high level of skill in ship-building and were able to navigate the often turbulent waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Shipbuilding seems to have been perfected at Byblos where the design of the curved hull was first initiated. Richard Miles notes that: However, Phoenician sailors wer...
The city of Sidon (modern Sidonia, Lebanon) was initially the most prosperous but steadily lost ground to her sister city of Tyre. Tyre formed an alliance with the newly formed Kingdom of Israelwhich proved very lucrative and further expanded its wealth by decreasing the power of the clergy and more efficiently distributing the wealth to the citize...
In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered Baalbek (re-naming it Heliopolis) and marched on to subdue the cities of Byblos and Sidon that same year. Upon his arrival at Tyre, the citizens followed the example set by Sidon and submitted peacefully to Alexander's demand for submission. Alexander then wished to offer a sacrifice in the holy temple of M...
By 64 BCE the disassembled parts of Phoenicia were annexed by Rome and, by 15 CE were colonies of the Roman Empire with Heliopolis remaining an important pilgrimage site which boasted the grandest religious building (the Temple of JupiterBaal) in all of the Empire, the ruins of which remain well preserved to this day. The most famous legacy of Phoe...
- Joshua J. Mark
The Phoenicia under Roman rule relates to the Roman control of Syro-Phoenician city states (in the area of modern Lebanon), that lasted from 64 BC to the Muslim ...
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Aug 4, 2023 · Finally, in 64 BC, the Roman general Pompey (also known as Pompey the Great) incorporated Phoenicia into the Roman province of Syria. It must be noted, however, that despite being under Roman rule, some Phoenician city-states, such as Aradus (modern Arwād), Sidon, and Tyre, were allowed to retain a degree of self-government, likely due to their economic importance.
