The history of Phoenician civilization dates between 1200 and 500 BC. With the capital cities of Byblos and Tyre, it was located in the Fertile Crescent and today would be a part of Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Gaza Strip and Syria. As a maritime trading culture, crossing the Mediterranean Sea, Phoenicians are famous as the inventors of ancient warships – bireme and galley. Their population was organized in city-states, even Carthage was a former Phoenician colony, and had its own religion. Eventually, Phoenicia was turned