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====Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Assyrians====
{{Main|Phoenicia|Ancient Carthage|Ancient history of Cyprus}}
[[File:Griechischen und phönizischen Kolonien.jpg|thumb|265px|Map of [[Phoenicia]]n (in yellow) and [[Second Greek colonisation|Greek colonies]] (in red) about 8th to 6th century BC.]]

The Phoenicians originally expanded from [[port]]s in [[Canaan]], by the 8th century dominating trade in the [[Mediterranean]]. [[Carthage]] was founded in 814 BC, and the Carthaginians by 700 BC had established strongholds in [[Sicily]], Italy and [[Sardinia]], which created conflicts of interest with [[Etruria]]. A [[stele]] found in [[Kition]], [[Cyprus]],  commemorates the victory of King [[Sargon II]] in 709 BC over the seven kings of the island, marking an important part of the transfer of Cyprus from [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyrian]] rule to the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=291290&partId=1 |title=The Esarhaddon Prism / Library of Ashurbanipal |website=British Museum }}</ref><ref>Yon, M., Malbran-Labat, F. 1995: "La stèle de Sargon II à Chypre", in A. Caubet (ed.), Khorsabad, le Palais de Sargon II, Roi d'Assyrie, Paris, 159–179.</ref><ref>Radner, K. 2010: "The Stele of Sargon II of Assyria at Kition: A focus for an emerging Cypriot identity?", in R. Rollinger, B. Gufler, M. Lang, I. Madreiter (eds), Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt: Vorderasien, Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des Kontakts, Wiesbaden, 429–449.</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/essentials/countries/cyprus/
|title=The Cypriot rulers as client kings of the Assyrian empire
|date=5 November 2012
|work=The many kingdoms of Cyprus
|access-date=21 January 2016
}}</ref>