This African country may have been first settled by Phoenicians as early as the 12th century B.C.
[DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Wikipedia [PAR] Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization of an unknown origin 
situated on ... Much later, in the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus writes that 
Phoenicia was formerly ... Archeology has identified cultural elements of the 
Phoenician zenith as early as the 3rd ... Carthage continued to flourish in North 
Africa.