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Continuing westward from the northern region of Syria to the coastal area and then heading south along the Mediterranean Sea, we reach the birthplace of the Phoenician civilization near modern-day Lebanon.
The term "Phoenician" originally means a purplish-red color and originates from a purplish-red pigment produced in the area, a purple dye extracted from mollusks that for over a thousand years was considered by The West as valuable as gold.
Geographically, Phoenicia stretched from Saxon in the north to Aker in the south, from the mountains of Lebanon in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The initial residents were the Hurrians, and around 3000 BC, the Canaanites migrated in, assimilating the local population.
Unlike many other nations, the Phoenicians did not establish a unified kingdom, but they set up a series of city-states along the Eastern Mediterranean coast, mainly including Bibros Town, Tyre, Belmote, and Weston Town.
