This African country may have been first settled by Phoenicians as early as the 12th century B.C.
They then transferred their capital to Meroe, 
300 .... Phoenician settlement in Libya (when its name was Lepcis) it became in 
Roman .... the Negro tribes and the creation of the first large West African 
kingdom,... [DOC] [TLE] History of Canary Islands - Lonely Planet Travel Information [PAR] The origin of the islands' first inhabitants has long been a source of mystery, with 
... the Romans conquered northern Africa from the 1st century BC to the 1st 
century ... has pushed back the known date of the earliest settlement to around 
200 BC, ... With his partner, Gadifer de la Salle, he may have hoped to use the 
Canaries... [DOC] [TLE] On the Transmission of the Alphabet to the Aegean before 1400 B. C. [PAR] century B.C.