Whence Europe

Below are historic distortions of the name “Phoenicians” that the Helleno-centric Western racists refuse to acknowledge. It would be demeaning for these racists to give credit to the Phoenicians as the source and origin of Greek culture. Yet, evidence continues to pour in. See for example Carolina Lopez-Ruiz’s latest masterpiece (2021), “Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean” in which she attacks the biased and vague Eurocentric claims that western civilization suddenly and spontaneously arose somewhere on a Greek island. Yet, no civilization or culture is an island, and while the West continues to fail to recognize that the Phoenicians were hundreds of years earlier than the Greeks propagating the foundations of Western civilization, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians themselves were also learning from other near-eastern cultures as they laid the foundations of all Mediterranean cultures. At least the Greeks themselves recognize that Europe was a Phoenician princess, and her myth as a founder of the European continent is a testament to the Phoenician foundation of Greek culture.

French/English
Phéaciens / Pheaceans
Phocéens / Phoceans
Puniques / Punic
Phéniciens / Phoenicians
Phrygiens / Phrygians
Carthaginois / Carthagenian
Ituréens / Itureans (From the region of Iturea in modern-day Italy)
Etrusques / Etruscans (From the region of Etruria in Italy facing the Tyrrhanean Sea, a name itself suggesting Tyrian, from the city of Tyre)

-... the last writings of the Etruscans, the Etrusca Disciplina, their books of cult and divination, were collected and burned in the 5th century by the first Christians who, like Daesh/ISIS today, were radical terrorists rampaging, killing and destroying all aspects (temples, books, scientists, etc.) of civilizations preceding Christianity (see for example the story of Hypatia of Alexandria). (see also: http://www.realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_1.htm).

- “The origins of the Etruscans, a non-Indo-European population of preclassical Italy, are unclear.”… “Genetic distances and sequence comparisons show closer evolutionary relationships with the eastern Mediterranean shores for the Etruscans than for modern Italian populations” ( American Journal of Human Genetics, 2004 Apr; 74(4): 694-704: The Etruscans: A population-genetic study)

- Tuscans are the Etruscans’ closest neighbors in terms of genetic distance. The Etruscans called themselves "Rasenna" which was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna [likely from the Semitic/Phoenician root RAS, head, chief… later giving Raj, Rex, etc..).

Other Greek names with Phoenician origins

Phocida or Focida in today’s central Greece

Phocis was an ancient region in the central part of ancient Greece, which included Delphi, a city visited by Cadmus, Europe’s brother, who was sent by his father, the King of Tyre (today’s Lebanon) to look for his sister. In Delphi, Cadmus was given a cow by Pelagon, King of Phocis, and it guided him to Boeotia, where he founded the city of Thebes.

Phocaea (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia. Colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, in France) in 600 BC. In Semitic/Phoenician, “Marsa-El” means “Harbor of God”, equivalent to “Gotenhafen” in today’s Poland.