An ancient city, settled for the first time by the Phoenicians in the 6th century BCE, called Arshuf, after the god Reshef by the Phoenicians. They produced purple dye here, and traded with the countries of the Mediterranean and with the ...See moreAn ancient city, settled for the first time by the Phoenicians in the 6th century BCE, called Arshuf, after the god Reshef by the Phoenicians. They produced purple dye here, and traded with the countries of the Mediterranean and with the inhabitants of the interior. The Greeks identified Resheph with Apollo, and so they called it Apollonia.
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