Byblos
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Byblos is an ancient Phoenician port city in modern-day Lebanon, considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a major center of early writing and trade.
Aliases (4)
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Heritage Site
→
ancient city → archaeological site → port city → |
| ancientName |
Gebal
→
Gebal →
surface form: "Gubla"
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| associatedWith |
development of the Phoenician alphabet
→
export of cedar wood → papyrus trade to the Aegean → trade with ancient Egypt → |
| climate | Mediterranean climate → |
| country | Lebanon → |
| culture |
Canaanite
→
Phoenician → |
| currentReligionMajority | Christianity → |
| currentReligionMinority | Islam → |
| describedAs | one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world → |
| distanceFromBeirut | about 40 kilometers north → |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Greek word for papyrus → |
| hasPort |
Byblos
→
surface form: "Byblos harbor"
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| hasStructure |
Byblos Castle
→
Royal necropolis of Byblos → Temple of Baalat Gebal → Temple of the Obelisks → ancient harbor → medieval city wall → |
| historicalLanguage |
Canaanite languages
→
Phoenician language →
surface form: "Phoenician"
|
| inception | 3rd millennium BCE → |
| knownFor |
Crusader castle
→
Phoenician alphabet →
surface form: "Phoenician script"
ancient temples → archaeological remains → early alphabetic writing → maritime trade → medieval city walls → papyrus trade → timber trade → |
| languageNow | Arabic → |
| locatedIn |
Levant region
→
surface form: "Levant"
Middle East → Mount Lebanon Governorate → Phoenician civilization →
surface form: "Phoenicia"
|
| locatedOn | Mediterranean Sea → |
| majorDeityWorshipped |
Adonis
→
Astarte →
surface form: "Baalat Gebal"
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| modernName | Jbeil → |
| nameInArabic | Jubayl → |
| nameInGreek | Byblos → |
| nameInPhoenician | Gbl → |
| nearbyCity | Beirut → |
| partOf |
Byblos
→
surface form: "Byblos District"
|
| religionHistorical | polytheism → |
| ruledBy |
Assyria
→
surface form: "Assyrian Empire"
Neo-Babylonian Empire →
surface form: "Babylonian Empire"
Byzantine Empire → Crusader states → Middle Kingdom of Egypt →
surface form: "Egyptian Middle Kingdom"
New Kingdom of Egypt →
surface form: "Egyptian New Kingdom"
Hellenistic kingdoms → Mamluk Sultanate → Ottoman Empire → Achaemenid Empire →
surface form: "Persian Achaemenid Empire"
Roman Empire → |
| timeDepth |
Bronze Age
→
Chalcolithic period → Iron Age → Neolithic Revolution →
surface form: "Neolithic period"
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| tourismType |
archaeological tourism
→
cultural tourism → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(iii)
→
(iv) → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear | 1984 → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus | World Heritage Site → |
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Cedars of Lebanon"
this entity surface form: "Byblos royal necropolis finds"