Achaemenid Phoenicia

Province of the Persian Empire

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c.538 BC–c.332 BC

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Phoenicia within The Achaemenid Empire, 500 BC.

Capital

Tyre

Historical era

Achaemenid Empire

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Cyrus invasion of Babylonia

c.538 BC

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Conquests of Alexander the Great

c.332 BC

Persian style two-headed bull protome found in Sidon . Marble, 5th century BC

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Phoenician ship (2nd-century CE carving)

Prehistory

Ancient

Phoenicia	3200–883 BC
Assyrian rule	883–605 BC
Babylonian rule	605–538 BC
Persian rule	538–332 BC

Classical

Hellenistic rule	332–64 BC
Roman rule	64 BC – 646 AD
Sassanid interlude	602 - 628 AD

Medieval

Arab rule	636–1516
Ottoman rule	1516–1917

Modern

Allied administration	1917–1920
French rule	1920–1943
Lebanese Republic	1943–present

Timeline

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The Achaemenids ended Babylonian rule in Lebanon, when Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire, captured Babylon in 539-38 BC and Babylonian province of Phoenicia and its neighbors passed into Persian hands.^[1] Cambyses (529-22 BC), Cyrus's son and successor, continued his father's policy of conquest and in 529 BC became suzerain of Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. The Phoenician navy supported Persia during the Greco-Persian War (490-49 BC). But when the Phoenicians were overburdened with heavy tributes imposed by the successors of Darius I (521-485 BC), revolts and rebellions resumed in the Lebanese coastal cities.

The Persian Empire, including the Phoenician province, eventually fell to Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia in 4th century BC.

References

Provinces of the Achaemenid Empire (Behistun / Persepolis / Naqsh-e Rustam / Susa / Daiva inscriptions)

Arabia Arachosia Aria Amyrgoi Armenia Assyria Babylonia Bactria Cappadocia Caucasian Albania Caria Cilicia Colchis Chorasmia Carmania Dahae Drangiana 1st Egypt / 2nd Egypt Eber-Nari Elam Gandhara Gedrosia Hyrcania Ionia Hindush Libya Maka Media Lesser Media Massagetae Parthia Persia Phoenicia Phrygia Hellespontine Phrygia Greater Phrygia Saka Samaritan Province Lydia Sattagydia Thrace Sogdia Yehud

See also Districts of the Achaemenid Empire (according to Herodotus)

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