which now just outside Tunis, Tunisia.
Though the Phoenicians were an influential people, relatively little is known about them. They are believed to have originated from the Lebanon now is and their influence expanded across the Mediterranean as far as the Iberian Peninsula. Along the way, they established settlements and trading posts. The city and trade centre of Carthage in Tunisia, North Africa, is believed to have been established as a Phoenician port by colonists from Lebanon.