This African country may have been first settled by Phoenicians as early as the 12th century B.C.
... Tyre's first colony, Utica in North Africa, was founded perhaps as early 
as the... [DOC] [TLE] The Phoenicians - Ancestral Journeys [PAR] Oct 17, 2011 ... Rather than the mythological firebird, they may have had in mind the ... Tyre too 
was first settled in the Early Bronze Age, but it was deserted ... Phoenician sites 
have been found on the copper-rich Troodos ...