Confederation · approximate1200 BCE – 539 BCE · 661 years

Phoenicia

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Phoenicia. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Confederation

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced: HBM -1000 coastline (Hittites / Kingdom of David and Solomon polygons) clipped to a hand-drawn Mount Lebanon crest line (r15)
POLITY TYPEconfederation

Coastal strip from the Tyre hinterland to Arwad; inland edge follows the Lebanon range crest. The city-states were Assyrian/Babylonian tributaries from the 8th century BCE and became a Persian satrapy in 539 BCE.

Wars of this empire1

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Neo-Assyrian Expansion (Ashurnasirpal II)883–859 BCE
Major conflict

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1200 BCE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Phoenicia (1200 BCE – 539 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/phoenicia · Sources & methodology