Phoenician counters in the Mediterranean
The “Phoinikes”, one allots sometimes to the Greek word phoiniks, indicating the purple (dye drawn from the murex and which represented a great richness in high Antiquity), the origin of the name of the Phoenicians. Other assumptions make them it “populates sheepskin”, or the “people of the palm trees”.
The Greeks were the first to name “Phoenician” the inhabitants of the Lebanese coastal strip who stretches herself of Such Suqas (the Shukshan antique), in north, Acre (Akko), in the south. Indicating themselves rather like Sidoniens or Tyriens, of the name of the cities of this small territory to the basement low in raw materials, the Phoenicians gave rise to a brilliant civilization and colonized all Mediterranean. The headlights cities of Phénicie were Byblos, Tyr and Sidon.