In Antiquity, lower Spain had a seemingly limitless supply of many metals like silver and iron. Tyre had been quickest to recognize the huge possibilities presented by these mines, although other Phoenicians from Sidon, Arvad and Byblos are also recorded as taking part in Tyrian mercantile ventures.
Phoenician
Phoenician interest in [Tartessus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessos) primarily centered on the vast mineral wealth found in its interior. Although Diodorus hyperbolized that during forest fires streams of molten silver ran down the hillsides, the mines of southern Spain appear to have offered a seemingly limitless supply of silver, iron and many other metals. Once again, the Tyrians had been quickest to recognize the huge possibilities presented by the mines of Tartessus, although other Phoenicians, from Sidon, Arvad and Byblos, are also recorded as taking part in Tyrian mercantile ventures. The Tyrians were the first to push to the furthermost limits of the Mediterranean Sea, establishing the colony of Lixus on the west coast of what is now Morocco after passing through the Pillars of Melqart (the Strait of Gibraltar) into the Atlantic Ocean, after which they established another trading station on the island of Mogador.
—Adapted from *Carthage Must be Destroyed* by Richard Miles
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r/PhoeniciaHistoryFacts
it Korkyra not Kokyra
If you consider the so called Bronze Age Collapse, ca 1200 BCE, it didn’t take that long for extensive trade connections to be reconnected and expanded even.
I don’t know if you did the map yourself or found it somewhere but the Greek name of Marseille in France was Massalia.
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In Antiquity, lower Spain had a seemingly limitless supply of many metals like silver and iron. Tyre had been quickest to recognize the huge possibilities presented by these mines, although other Phoenicians from Sidon, Arvad and Byblos are also recorded as taking part in Tyrian mercantile ventures.
Phoenician
Phoenician interest in [Tartessus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessos) primarily centered on the vast mineral wealth found in its interior. Although Diodorus hyperbolized that during forest fires streams of molten silver ran down the hillsides, the mines of southern Spain appear to have offered a seemingly limitless supply of silver, iron and many other metals. Once again, the Tyrians had been quickest to recognize the huge possibilities presented by the mines of Tartessus, although other Phoenicians, from Sidon, Arvad and Byblos, are also recorded as taking part in Tyrian mercantile ventures. The Tyrians were the first to push to the furthermost limits of the Mediterranean Sea, establishing the colony of Lixus on the west coast of what is now Morocco after passing through the Pillars of Melqart (the Strait of Gibraltar) into the Atlantic Ocean, after which they established another trading station on the island of Mogador.
—Adapted from *Carthage Must be Destroyed* by Richard Miles
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r/PhoeniciaHistoryFacts
it Korkyra not Kokyra
If you consider the so called Bronze Age Collapse, ca 1200 BCE, it didn’t take that long for extensive trade connections to be reconnected and expanded even.
I don’t know if you did the map yourself or found it somewhere but the Greek name of Marseille in France was Massalia.
It became Massilia during the Roman empire
And it’s Alalia, not Atalia, in Corsica