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The mainland Greeks had begun their colonization efforts in the western Mediterranean with the founding of Naxos and Cumae in Sicily and Italy respectively, and by 650 BCE, Phoenicians in Sicily have retreated to the western part of the island.

The Carthaginian colonization of Ibiza, the first recorded independent action by the Phoenician city, takes place around this time.

Phoenician settlers establish a port—Ibossim (from the Phoenician iboshim dedicated to the god of the music and dance, Bes)—in the Balearic Islands in 654 BCE; it will be later known to Romans as "Ebusus."

The Greeks, who come to Ibiza during the time of the Phoenicians, are the first to call the two islands of Ibiza and Formentera the Pityûssai ("pine-covered islands").

Ibiza, together with the islands of Formentera and Menorca, is invaded by King Sigurd Magnusson of Norway in the spring of 1110 on his crusade to Jerusalem.

The king had previously conquered the cities of Sintra, Lisboa and Alcácer do Sal and given them over to Christian rulers, in an effort to weaken the Muslim grip on the Iberian peninsula.

King Sigurd continues to Sicily where he visits is Norman ruler, king Roger II.

Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and his Pisan allies conquer Ibiza and …