Phoenicia פיניקיה

Coastal city-states of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos on today's Lebanese coast, home to master seafarers and traders who founded colonies across the Mediterranean, including Carthage. The Phoenician alphabet became the ancestor of the Hebrew, Greek and Latin scripts. King Hiram of Tyre supplied cedar and craftsmen for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Their neighbors in the land were the Canaanites, whose culture they largely continued.