Arwad

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Phoenician city ancient city-state archaeological site island

Arwad is an ancient Phoenician island city-state off the coast of modern-day Syria, historically known as a significant maritime and trading center in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Phoenician city ⓘ
ancient city-state ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ
island ⓘ
ancientLanguage Phoenician ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Syria ⓘ
culture Phoenician culture ⓘ
era Bronze Age ⓘ
Classical antiquity ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
governance monarchy ⓘ
hasFeature fortified island settlement ⓘ
harbor facilities ⓘ
hasHeritage Phoenician maritime heritage ⓘ
historicalRegion Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant
historicalStatus independent city-state ⓘ
knownAs Arados ⓘ
Aradus ⓘ
Arvad ⓘ
laterControlledBy Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Babylonian Empire

Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Crusader states ⓘ
Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ
Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
locatedIn Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
surface form: eastern Mediterranean
locatedInGovernorate Tartus ⓘ
surface form: Tartus Governorate
locatedNear Tartus ⓘ
locatedOffCoastOf Syria ⓘ
modernCountry Syria ⓘ
surface form: Syrian Arab Republic
modernStatus inhabited island of Syria ⓘ
partOf Phoenician civilization ⓘ
surface form: Phoenicia
region eastern Mediterranean coast ⓘ
religionHistorical Canaanite religion ⓘ
significance maritime center ⓘ
naval power ⓘ
trading center ⓘ
strategicRole control of coastal trade routes ⓘ
naval base ⓘ
tradedWith Anatolia ⓘ
Cyprus ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ
Mesopotamia ⓘ
other Phoenician cities ⓘ
typeOfGovernment city-state ⓘ

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