The shores of which territories were captured and colonized by the Phoenicians.

The Phoenicians were skilled seafarers and established many colonies along the shores of the Mediterranean. One of the earliest colonies was the island of Cyprus, which was located quite close to Phenicia itself. Then the Phoenicians founded colonies on other large Mediterranean islands: Corsica, Crete, Malta, Sicily, etc. For example, the capital of present-day Sicily, Palermo, arose precisely on the site of the Phoenician colony. The sailors also founded many settlements on the southern coast of Spain (for example, Gibraltar and Malaga), as well as modern Morocco and Tunisia.