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The city of Byblos has been inhabited since the time of the Neolithic Revolution.  It only became a Phoenician city much later.  It is still inhabited today by the people of Lebanon.  This is a large example of continuity.  The oldest settlement in that area is thought to be an ancient fishing village and is about 7000 years old.  A large achievement of the city is the invention of the first alphabet, which was then perfected by Greece.  As stated before, this city's economy revolved around trade.  One of the main empires that traded with Byblos is Egypt.  Egypt would trade many materials for cedar wood and oil, which was abundant in the area surrounding Byblos.  This city was destroyed at about 2150 BC  by the Amorites, but was rebuilt 200 years later.  Byblos also became a religious center for the gods of Phoenicia.  This was and still is a very important city in the Near East.
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In the beginning, Byblos was a humble fishing village named Gebal. However, due to its strategic location on the Mediterranean coast, the small village swelled into an opulent town via trade. Because of the abundance of prized timber surrounding Byblos in Lebanon, the town became the primary exporter of timber throughout the known world. The inhabitants of Byblos soon became the finest shipwrights the world had ever seen and were largely responsible for Phoenicia's reputation as a mighty sailing empire. Byblos took advantage of supply and demand cycles with Egypt to amass vast riches. However, as Tyre expanded in influence and size between 1100 and 725 BCE, Byblos' ability to monopolize Mediterranean trade diminished, although Byblos remained the religious capital of Phoenicia.  
  
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Sources: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/295  ''The Fifth Mountain''
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Byblos has a claim to being one of the oldest cities in existence, and its inhabitants believed that the god El had founded it at the beginning of time. The greeks bought much of their papyrus at Byblos, leading them to name their books "biblos".
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In the beginning, Byblos was a humble fishing village named Gebal. However, due to its strategic location on the Mediterranean coast, the small village swelled into an opulent town via trade. Because of the abundance of prized timber surrounding Byblos in Lebanon, the town became the primary exporter of timber throughout the known world. The inhabitants of Byblos soon became the finest shipwrights the world had ever seen and were largely responsible for Phoenicia's reputation as a mighty sailing empire. Byblos took advantage of supply and demand cycles with Egypt to amass vast riches. However, as Tyre expanded in influence and size between 1100 and 725 BCE, Byblos' ability to monopolize Mediterranean trade diminished, although Byblos remained the religious capital of Phoenicia.

Byblos has a claim to being one of the oldest cities in existence, and its inhabitants believed that the god El had founded it at the beginning of time. The greeks bought much of their papyrus at Byblos, leading them to name their books "biblos".

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Information Source: http://www.ancient.eu/Byblos/

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