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Kition (Ancient Greek: Κίτιον, Kition; Latin: Citium; Egyptian: kꜣṯꜣj; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤕 , KT, or 𐤊𐤕𐤉 , KTY;) was an Ancient Greek city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca), one of the Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus.
The city dates back to the 12th century BC in Egyptian inscriptions, but later in the Bible. Photo: Niki Pyrgou Nicolaou The history of ancient Kition: According to excavations in the area, there were two prehistoric settlements in the area that had developed commercial relations and expo...
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recent French and Cypriot excavations give Kition an important place among the Cyp- riot cities of the first millennium B.c. Kition is distinguished by its Phoenician charac- ter. There are two phases in the history of the city in the first millennium: the first from.
First idea: the “Phoenician” history of Cyprus starts with the Phoenician colonization of Kition. First a Phoenician colony, Kition then became a Phoenician stronghold from where Phoenician influence spread into the island.
Kition Archaeological Site. The architectural ruins of the ancient city-kingdom of Kition provide the first clear evidence that the Mycenaean Achaeans arrived in Larnaka (Larnaca) in the 13th century BC and stayed until the end of the 11th century BC. The Phoenicians inhabited the city in the 9th century BC. Around the end of the 13th century ...
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Kition: a capital city of Cyprus. Kition, on the southeast coast of the island, was the capital of a Cypriot-Phoenician kingdom in the 1 st millennium BCE. Dating from the 13 th century BCE, its life span has allowed archaeologists to study, throughout Antiquity, archaeological evidence for periods of crisis, forms of urban resilience and means ...
Cypro-Classical I: 475–400 BC. Cypro-Classical II: 400–323 BC. The documented history of Cyprus begins in the 8th century BC. The town of Kition, now Larnaka, recorded part of the ancient history of Cyprus on a stele that commemorated a victory by Sargon II (722–705 BC) of Assyria there in 709 BC.
