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By 1100 BC, Canaanite ports included Arwad, Byblos, Tyre and Sidon that traded in eastern Mediterranean; Canaanites took the name of Phoenicians from "phoinix" (Greek for purple) referring to the purple dye they traded; [Smithsonian, p. 37] "By the time of David’s reign [1010-970 BC], Sidon was resettled, and the same peoples occupied not only Tyre and Sidon but also the ancient trading city of Byblos. Their particular mix of Western Semitic and Aegean became known as Phoenician. There was no country called Phoenicia, nor was there a Phoenician high king. The independent cities along the coast were united by a shared culture and language; their writing system was the first to incorporate an alphabet." [Bauer: Ancient World, p. 319-21] "Relations with Israel were good in the time of King Solomon who sent Hiram of Tyre 440,000 bushels of wheat and barley and 340,000 gallons of oil (I Chronicles 2:9) annually." [Historical Atlas of Judaism, p. 49]