Lebanese Phoenicians?

Question

It is a joke when a Lebanese say they are Phoenicians...

Lebanese are as much Phoenicians as Egyptians are Pharoes.

The inhabitants of Lebanon were:
The Phoenicians
The Assyrians
The Babylonians
The Persians.

I think I am Babylonian...he he he

Enough of this Phoenicians bull....

Wake up and smell the Humus...

Ghanouja, Immature answer as I expected, just like all of your questions..tasteless and dumm

Answer 1

Ummm, what is your point of view, it seems that you are a kindergarten drop out, where history never made it to your brain, i mean ears

Edit: Kingo no need to answer any of my questions, and your question is babylonic like what you think you are...

Answer 2

Between the period of 1200 B.C. and 900 B.C. there was no major military power in Mesopotamia. Therefor smaller states like Phoenicia and the Hebrew kingdom were able to prosper. These kingdoms especially the Phoenicians started to trade throughout the Mediterranean region.



History tells us that the Canaanites, a tribe of Semitic origin, were first to inhabit the Lebanese shores. Indeed their culture is said to form the basis of the Aramaean culture of both Syria and of Israelite Palestine. The Canaanites who traded with the Greeks became known by them as Phoenicians.



Lebanon started to be called such by name sometime in the third Millennium before Christ, when reference is made to the Pharoahs of Egypt importing cedar wood from the mountains of Lebanon.



The term Phoenicia, from the Greek Phoenix, means purple-red, and refers to the purple industry (the dye extracted from the mollusc shell-fish and used to colour cloth) of the early Lebanese.

Answer 3

I know that some Lebanese say that they are Phoenicians, and i know that it is because of their history.
But i don't think that it's wise to say so.
Because to say that Lebanese are originally Phoenicians is like saying that Palestine is originally the land of the Jewish population, and that by "logicality", Israelis are the true "Palestinians".
It is from these kinds of name combinations that geo-political problems arise...
I think we should like at the truth as it is, the people of Lebanon are Lebanese... after that, the true origins of Lebanese can change, according to their ancestry. They can be of Phoenician, Assyrian,Babylonian or Persian descendant, depending on where exactly they come from.

Answer 4

I am French and have many Lebanese and Arab friends. This may come as a shock to some people. But the Phoenicians are actually tribes that share the same ancestry as the Arabs.

I recommend that people should read their history.

In terms of archaeology, language, and religion, there is little to set the Phoenicians apart as markedly different from other local cultures of Canaan, because they were Canaanites themselves.

And the Canaanites are Arabs!

Answer 5

First I will tell you I am not lebanese. I have heard this as an argument before with friends, amongst lebanese themselves. Generally speaking it was the Christians who considered themselves Phoenician and the Muslims who identified themselves as Arabs. They would name call and blow the issue out of proportion to what it really was. For what its worth as an outsider, American no less, I see all lebanese sharing in a phoenician and arab heritage whether muslim or christian. History and politics have taught the lebanese how not to be citizens of their country.

Its way past my bedtime so I will not elaborate any more on this for now.

Answer 6

? think of lebaneses are blend of quite a few cultures, actual Phoenician have been stablished there for long term as in addition they have been stablished in Spain (Port of Cadiz case in point), yet like quite a number of the Mediterranean sourrounded international locations there have been quite a few cultures that have been exceeded via that lands and Lebanon is one among this international locations the place beside Phoenicians Roman, Greeks, Arabs have been living, so as Aussy stated, Lebaneses are a mixture of quite a few cultures, and for this reason we are able to assert that Lebanon has a diversitiy of heritages and richness of their subculture. ?n actuality in case you spot a lebanese you will possibly be able to think of he's Greek or Arab or Turk (from Turkey who are additionally a mixed people).

Answer 7

Kingo, there is no need to insult people who don't agree with you. We have Milo for that, God bless him.

When you admit that the inhabitants of lebanon were phoenicians ( amongst others) I don't see why you get so defensive.

I am a descendent of the phoenicians, if it wasn't late where I am, and if I was in the mood and if I wasn't angry at you for being rude I would have gone into it more details and proved you wrong.

Answer 8

hello Kingo...
I know that your question came up, directly because of my reply to another question posted yesterday.
I want to tell you some things.
1st) I dont know you, and I consider myself so much well educated to insult a person that I dont know. So.......it is up to you and your education , to say that what I posted here was "bull"

2nd) I agree in part with Pabs about what he says. I know what the origins are, but I consider myself coming more from Phoenicians than from Arabs (I have nothing against Arabs).
It is something inside my heart .
And dear........what is inside my heart...neither you nor anybody will be able to change it.
I could say so much about egyptian history, Pharaos and the actual Copts, but I dont want to start any other polemic here....
Good for you if you think that are Babilonian...in spanish we say that a person is in babilonia when is silly... (no offence plz...only telling you a fact)
So...finishing with this....NO ONE will tell me when will be enough with the Phoenician issue........less...you !!!


Oops......almost forget !!!!!
I wish I could wake up everydays smelling hommos!!!

Salam habibi..

Answer 9

Actually to be scientific, the Lebanese are actually a hybrid of all those which you mentioned.

All of the issues you pose in your questions come from a different era actually. I think all of these issues have become corny.

I don't like the way you are mocking others by telling them to stop the "bull". Who says they don't consider what you say is also bull? How would that feel?

Let's try to have nice arguments instead please. Provoking the other party by accusing him of saying bull does not help.

Thank You.

Answer 10

Your history details are correct but don't you think that Babylonians are now living in Iraq.

It seems you like Humus a lot, I remember you asking this question before. By the way did you do it my way? American-Lebanese Humus lol.