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Byzantion was colonized around 657 BC by Greeks from Megara. But the Phoenicians had been colonizing the Mediterranean for centuries beforehand. What if the Phoenicians were the first to establish a colony in that strategic spot, settling Phoenician colonists there and establishing a fishing and trading colony?

Later, would it become Punic in influence? Or would the small sizes of Phoenician colonies (leading to much interaction with the natives of the region) lead to Phoenician Byzantion becoming the chief city of a largely Thracian kingdom with Levantine technology and social structure?
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