entity · pol_phoenician_city_states
Phoenician City-States
A grouped set of related or successor political entities.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–300 BCE
Precision: not specified
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Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Early Iron Age
The period following the regional ends of the Bronze Age, represented here as a transformation rather than an instantaneous universal boundary.
Why does this record have this property?
The Phoenician city-state configuration belongs chiefly to the Early Iron Age transformation.
Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration
Growth, institutional reorganization, or restored connectivity following earlier contraction or collapse.
Why does this record have this property?
Levantine coastal cities reorganized and later expanded maritime exchange rather than simply reappearing after total disappearance.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Phoenician City-States.
- supports · supports entity record
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Phoenician City-States.
Referenced records
- Northern Levant · entity