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Were the Phoenicians European?

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No. They were Eastern Mediterranean people. Levantines, Canaanites. They certainly must have mixed as they had European colonies as well as North African colonies. But, that doesn't make them neither Europeans nor Africans. read more

The city of Carthage in Tunisia, North Africa, was established as a Phoenician port by colonists from Lebanon and became the centre for later Phoenician (Punic) trade. The researchers analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 47 modern Lebanese people and found none were of the U5b2cl lineage. read more

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