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Greek Colonies of the Northern Black Sea

Map of Tartessos with Phoenician and Greek colonies

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1000 BC

Phoenician trading colonies in the western Mediterranean.
800 BC - 600 BC

Main period of Phoenician colonization.
800 BC - 500 BC

Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
c. 750 BC

Phoenicians found the colony of Motya on Sicily.
734 BC

Corinthians found the colony Syracuse in Sicily.
630 BC

Greek colonists from the island of Thera found the city of Cyrene in North Africa.
580 BC - 376 BC

Carthage and Greece fight for dominance in Sicily.
500 BC

Carthage expands into southern Spain.
396 BC

The Carthaginian city of Lilybaeum is founded on Sicily.