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The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in present-day Lebanon. Their maritime civilization expanded and contracted over time, with its cultural core stretching from Arwad to Mount Carmel.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenicia | Capital | None; dominant cities were Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | Common languages | Phoenician | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | Demonym | Phoenicians | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | Government | City-states ruled by kings, with varying degrees of oligarchy or plutocracy; oligarchic republic in Carthage after c. 480 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | Historical era | Archaic period to Classical antiquity | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | Religion | Canaanite religion | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • 820–774 BC | Pygmalion of Tyre | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • 969–936 BC | Hiram I | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • c. 1800 BC | Abishemu I | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • Carthage founded (in Roman accounts by Dido) | 814 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • Established | 2000 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • Roman annexation | 64 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | • Tyre becomes dominant city-state under the reign of Hiram I | 969 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Phoenicia | is a | Greek exonym that did not correspond to a unified native identity | 0.90 | text |
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