Tyre and Sidon were the two most important cities of Phoenicia. Characterized by natural coves during the Bronze Age, the cities had artificial harbor infrastructure after the first millennium BC.

The Phoenicians were Semitic-speaking people who primarily inhabited several coastal cities in the Levant: Byblos, Tyre, Arvad, Berytus (Beirut), and Sidon. There was no Phoenician empire or ...