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Phoenicia, Achaemenid
The Achaemenids end Babylonian rule in Lebanon, when Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire, captures Babylon in 539-38 BCE and Babylonian province of Phoenicia and its neighbors pass into Persian hands.
Cambyses (529-22 BCE), Cyrus's son and successor, continues his father's policy of conquest and in 529 BCE becomes suzerain of Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.
The Phoenician navy supports Persia during the Greco-Persian War (490-49 BCE), but when the Phoenicians are overburdened with heavy tributes imposed by the successors of Darius I (521-485 BC), revolts and rebellions resume in the Lebanese coastal cities.The Persian Empire, including the Phoenician province, eventually falls to Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia in 4th century BCE.
Member Cities
- Tyre > Sur Liban-Sud Lebanon Capital
- Alexandretta > Iskenderun Hatay Turkey Location
- Alicante Valenciana Spain Location
- Ancyra > Ankara Ankara Turkey Location
- Antioch > Antakya Hatay Turkey Location
- Aradus Syria Location
- Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece Location
- Baalbek > Heliopolis Lebanon Location
- Carthage Tunis Tunisia Location
- Cilician Gates >Gülek Bogazi Turkey Location
- Delphi Greece Location
- Dor > Tel Dor Israel Israel Location
- Ghazzah (Gaza) Gaza Strip Israel Location
- Gordium Turkey Location
- Issus Turkey Location
- Jerusalem > Yerushalayim Israel Israel Location
- Larnaca > Lárnax > Citium Larnaca Cyprus Location
- Latakia > Al-Ladhiqiyah Al-Ladhiqiyah Syria Location
- Marathus Syria Location
- Mogador > Essaouira Essaouira Morocco Location
- Pella Greece Location
- Persepolis Fars Iran Location
- Phaselis Antalya Turkey Location
- Sagalassos Burdur Turkey Location
- Salamis Cyprus Location
- Salamis Island Attiki Greece Location
- Side Pamphyllia Antalya Turkey Location
- Sidon > Sayda Liban-Sud Lebanon Location
- Soli Nicosia Cyprus Location
- Susa Iran Location