Port

There are 184 items in Port:

Trapezus

Trapezus (Greek: Τραπεζοῦς): Greek city on the southern shore of the Black Sea, modern Trabzon.Origins Tombstone of a soldier of XV…

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Tunes

Tunes (Greek: Τύνης): city near Carthage, modern Tunis. Head of Bacchus from Tunes Tunes, the medina of modern Tunis, is situated on…

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Tyre

Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Origins …

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Tyre (3)

Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.The Hellenistic Age …

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Tyre, city, Egyptian Harbor

Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Tyre used to have two harbors: the Sidonian in the north, which is nowadays a bit smaller than it…

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Ugarit (Ras Shamra)

Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History …

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Utica

Utica (Punic ˁattiq, "old town"): Punic city, forty kilometers northwest of Carthage (Kart hadašt, "new town").Punic Utica Punic funeral stela Old Punic settlement (perhaps the…

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