Timeline Phoenicians

Timeline Phoenicians

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c2300BCE   Phoenicians, a seafaring people, began living along the Levantine coast.
   (SFC, 6/24/99, p.A14)

c1500BCE   Linguistic evidence shows that the Canaanites (now more commonly known as the Phoenicians) were non-Jewish Semites whose language was almost identical with Hebrew.
   (MT, Spg. ‘97, p.12)(L.C.-W.P.p.87-89)(WSJ, 4/17/97, p.A20)

1100-700BCE   The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean.
   (WH, 1994, p.13)

c1000BCE   The Phoenicians and other Semites of Syria and Palestine began using graphic signs representing letters. Aleph meaning ox was the sign that represented a sound such as that heard in the pronunciation of the o in bottle, known as a glottal stop.
   (AHD, 1971, p.1)

c750BCE   Two Phoenician ships from Tyre carrying amphorae filled with wine sank some 30 miles off the coast of Israel. In 1999 a team led by Robert Ballard discovered the ships at a depth of about 1,500 feet.
   (SFC, 6/24/99, p.A14)

c500BCE   Phoenicians founded Tripoli about this time.
   (SSFC, 6/27/04, p.D12)

332BCE       July, In Phoenicia Alexander stormed the island of Tyre and moved on to con-quer Egypt. Alexander besieged the city of Gaza. He was able to take Tyre by building a causeway to the island.
   (R.M.-P.H.C.p.71), (NG, Aug., 1974, S.W. Matthews, p.162)(Enc. of Africa, 1976, p.167)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)

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