Phoenicia

Phoenicia was a narrow coastal region of Canaan. Phoenicia was famous for their skilled and brave merchant sailors, and they founded cities as far west as north-west Africa and the southern coast of Spain.

Phoenicia was named after Phoenix, son of Agenor and Telephassa or Argiope, and brother of Cadmus and Europa.

There were three important Phoenician cities that appeared in classical myths:

Byblus

Sidon

Tyre