Several stories (e.g., the cooperation with king Solomon to sail to the deep south) may be legendary (see above, "Sources").
The two cities appear to have become a unified monarchy.
Main beneficients of the colonization: Sidon and Tyre, which was already important in the tenth century. Motya), but more often, they were built on promontories. Sometimes the cities were, like the Greek colonies of the Archaic Age, first founded on small islands (e.g. Phoenician gold dish from YoIdalion (Cyprus). Meninx, Thapsus, Hadrumetum, Kerkouane, Carthage, Utica Invented in Egypt or the Sinai, it had been in use by the Ugarites, and was now brought to Greece, Sicily, and Etruria. The Phoenician merchants took the alphabet with them. Essentially renewal of Bronze Age trade network. It started in the tenth century BCE, first to Cyprus ( Kition, founded in the ninth century) and the Aegean Sea (in Greek, Phoinikes can be the equivalent of “merchant” or “pirate”). Because the Lebanon Mountains made expansion to the interior impossible, expansion had to be overseas. Originally, Byblos was the main city, as it had been in the Bronze Age. Never a unity always separate city states, always interested in trade with the Mediterranean. Scholars of ancient Phoenicia accept these sources, which can be eliminated, without questioning. One problem: the Biblical books of Kings and derived ancient sources (e.g., Menander of Ephesus, Flavius Josephus) are often used as historical sources, but Biblical scholars are divided about their reliability. Inscriptions in Phoenician and Punic references in Assyrian, Hebrew, and Babylonian texts Greek and Latin texts. Foundation inscription of the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon. In the east, we find Aramaean towns, in the north the Neo-Hittite states, in the south the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. They were the continuators of the society of the Late Bronze Age known from a/o Ugarit. Another name, also given to the inhabitants of Iron Age Syria, was "Kanaanites", which also means "red". Perhaps a reference to Phoenician purple, which is made from the murex sea snail. 
Murex shell and purple textile Φοίνικες is Greek and means “red”.
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