Gbl

E164369

Gbl is the Phoenician name for the ancient Mediterranean port city known in Greek as Byblos, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gbl canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Phoenician city ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
port city ⓘ
associatedWithDeity Baalat Gebal ⓘ
linked to: Astarte
hasArchaeologicalSite Byblos city walls ⓘ
linked to: Byblos

Crusader castle of Byblos ⓘ
linked to: Byblos Castle

Royal necropolis of Byblos ⓘ
Temple of Baalat Gebal ⓘ
hasContinuityOfHabitation continuous since at least the 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ
hasCoordinateLatitude 34.123 ⓘ
hasCoordinateLongitude 35.651 ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity commerce ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
tourism ⓘ
hasHeritageStatus UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
hasHistoricalPeriod Bronze Age ⓘ
Byzantine period ⓘ
Crusader period ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ
linked to: Roman Antiquity
hasLanguageCurrentlySpoken Arabic ⓘ
hasLanguageHistoricallySpoken Aramaic ⓘ
Greek ⓘ
Phoenician ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician language
hasModernName Byblos ⓘ
Jbeil ⓘ
hasNameInArabic Jubayl ⓘ
hasNameInGreek Byblos ⓘ
hasNameInPhoenician Gbl ⓘ
hasTypeOfSettlement coastal city ⓘ
seaport ⓘ
influenced development of the Greek alphabet ⓘ
knownFor Phoenician civilization ⓘ
ancient port and maritime trade ⓘ
being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world ⓘ
early alphabetic inscriptions ⓘ
temples and archaeological remains ⓘ
locatedInCountry Lebanon ⓘ
locatedInDistrict Byblos District ⓘ
linked to: Byblos
locatedInGovernorate Mount Lebanon Governorate ⓘ
locatedInRegion Phoenicia ⓘ
locatedOnBodyOfWater Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
partOf Ancient Near East ⓘ
Levant ⓘ
linked to: Levant region
UNESCOListingYear 1984 ⓘ
UNESCOSiteType cultural ⓘ
wasMajorCenterOf papyrus trade ⓘ

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