Carthage became rich and independent, and established its own trading stations. Under Carthage's Barca family, it broke the normal pattern of simply having a trading station by taking over territory and establishing territorial claims, which effectively became colonies.
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They were trading stations spread around the central and western Mediterranean Sea.
Phoenician colonies were trading stations rather than colonies. The one which developed into a city-state - Carthage - simply became independent, matching Phoenicia itself, which was not a country but rather a collection of independent city-states.
Trading posts from which they ran ships to carry good between the centres, from which trade they made a handsome profit.
Trading stations on the Mediterranean littoral, and to the Canary Islands and Cornwall, with colonies at Carthage in Africa and New Carthage in Iberia.
They were trading stations - as great traders, the Phoenician need local bases to carry out this trade and protect it.
Their purpose was to be trading ports around the Mediterranean.
The Phoenician established a colony at Carthage in Tunisia which became a prominent power in the western Mediterranean. They also established trading stations/colonies around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and in Babylon.
They were trading colonies as bases for their trading activity around the Mediterranean.
In today's Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and in Carthage in Tunisia.
The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean Sea, and so sowed their alphabet in those places, which found it useful for their own communications, better then the pictograms and syllabic writings they used.
When they settled in Syria-Lebanon, their different tribes formed independent city-states each with their separate land, city centre and government. These cities liked their independence and had no desire to submit to other cities.
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