The name was originally Gebal in Phoenician, but the Greeks rendered this as Byblos, which came down to us through Greek written records.
Phoenician
Lady Byblos
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Carthage. However it was not an empire, it was an ethnic group of independent city-states.
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos.
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Carthage, ,
Byblos, which gave rise to modern words such as bibliography.
in byblos lebanon, in lebanon Around 1200 B.C, the scribes of Byblos developed an alphabetic phonetic script, the precursor of our modern alphabet. By 800 B.C., it had traveled to Greece, changing forever the way man communicated. the earliest form of the Phoenician alphabet found to date is the inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Byblos.
The words bible and biblio---- come from the Greek word biblos = book. The name of the city of Byblos is the Greek interpretation of its Phoenician name.
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, Carthage.
The most important were Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Carthage.
There were many important Phoenician ports and traade centers throughout the Mediterranean. The culture started on the east end of the Med, so a good answer would be Tripoli.
yes, in fact the world bible is derived from the word byblos. byblos is the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. some places are older but they were deserted at one time or another. for more info check byblos wikipedia