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.
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Tyre was a trading colony established by the Phoenicians. Ur was a city in Mesopotamia founded by the Sumerians.
Carthage, in today's Tunisia.
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They were the Phoenicians.
Punicus was their word for Phoenicians - Carthage was originally a Phoenician colony.
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Out of sight of land they used astral navigation. The got as far afield as the Canary Islands and Cornwall.
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Carthage was established as a colony by the Phoenicians on Africa's coast near the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. It later grew to become a powerful city-state and a major center of trade in the ancient Mediterranean world.
The Latin word for the Phoenicians is Poeni. The adjectival form is Punicus. This is the source of our word "Punic", as in the "Punic Wars" fought between Rome and Carthage. Carthage which was originally a Phoenician colony.