Gbl

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Gbl is the Phoenician name for the ancient Mediterranean port city known in Greek as Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

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Gbl canonical 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Phoenician city
ancient city
port city
associatedWithDeity Astarte
surface form: Baalat Gebal
hasArchaeologicalSite Byblos
surface form: Byblos city walls

Byblos Castle
surface form: Crusader castle of Byblos

Royal necropolis of Byblos
Temple of Baalat Gebal
hasContinuityOfHabitation continuous since at least the 3rd millennium BCE
hasCoordinateLatitude 34.123
hasCoordinateLongitude 35.651
hasEconomicActivity commerce
fishing
tourism
hasHeritageStatus UNESCO World Heritage Site
hasHistoricalPeriod Bronze Age
Byzantine period
Crusader period
Hellenistic period
Iron Age
Roman Antiquity
surface form: Roman period
hasLanguageCurrentlySpoken Arabic
hasLanguageHistoricallySpoken Aramaic
Greek
Phoenician language
surface form: Phoenician
hasModernName Byblos
Jbeil
hasNameInArabic Jubayl
hasNameInGreek Byblos
hasNameInPhoenician Gbl
hasTypeOfSettlement coastal city
seaport
influenced development of the Greek alphabet
knownFor Phoenician civilization
ancient port and maritime trade
being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
early alphabetic inscriptions
temples and archaeological remains
locatedInCountry Lebanon
locatedInDistrict Byblos
surface form: Byblos District
locatedInGovernorate Mount Lebanon Governorate
locatedInRegion Phoenician civilization
surface form: Phoenicia
locatedOnBodyOfWater Mediterranean Sea
partOf Ancient Near East
Levant region
surface form: Levant
UNESCOListingYear 1984
UNESCOSiteType cultural
wasMajorCenterOf papyrus trade

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