Levant Timeline

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Levant is the name applied widely to the eastern Mediterranean coastal lands of Asia Minor and Phoenicia (modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon). In a wider sense, the term can be used to encompass the entire coastline from Greece to Egypt. The Levant is part of the Fertile Crescent and was home to some of the ancient Mediterranean trade centers, such as Ugarit, Tyre, and Sidon. It is the homeland of the Phoenician civilization.

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c. 6000 BCE
First fortified settlement at Ugarit.
c. 4000 BCE
Founding of the city of Sidon.
c. 4000 BCE - c. 3000 BCE
Trade contact between Byblos and Egypt.
c. 2900 BCE - c. 2300 BCE
First settlement of Baalbek.
c. 2750 BCE
The city of Tyre is founded.
c. 1458 BCE
Kadesh and Megiddo lead a Canaanite alliance against the Egyptian invasion by Thutmose III.
1274 BCE
Battle of Kadesh between Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt and King Muwatalli II of the Hittites.
c. 1250 BCE - c. 1200 BCE
Hebrew tribes settle Canaan.
c. 1200 BCE
Sea Peoples invade the Levant.
1115 BCE - 1076 BCE
Reign of Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria who conquers Phoenicia and revitalizes the empire.
c. 1080 BCE
Rise of the kingdom of Israel.
c. 1000 BCE
Height of Tyre's power.
c. 965 BCE - 931 BCE
Solomon is king of Israel.
950 BCE
Solomon builds the first Temple of Jerusalem.
722 BCE
Israel is conquered by Assyria.
351 BCE
Artaxerxes III sacks Sidon.
332 BCE
Alexander the Great sacks Sidon.
332 BCE
Alexander the Great sacks Baalbek and renames it Heliopolis.
332 BCE
Conquest of the Levant by Alexander the Great who destroys Tyre.
Jan 332 BCE - Jul 332 BCE
Alexander the Great besieges and conquers Tyre.
64 BCE
Tyre becomes a Roman colony.
c. 6 BCE - c. 30 CE
Life of Jesus Christ.
637 CE
Muslim invasion of the Levant. The Byzantines are driven out.

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