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Kition
34.9233° N, 33.6305° E
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Kition (Ancient Greek: Κίτιον, Kition; Latin: Citium; Egyptian: kꜣṯꜣj; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤕, KT, or 𐤊𐤕𐤉, KTY;) was an Ancient Greek city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca), one of the Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus. Its most famous, and probably only known, resident was Zeno of Kition, born c. 334 BC in Kition and founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
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Destruction around 1200 BCE
c. 1200 BCE
Religious area abandonment
c. 1000 BCE
Phoenician presence begins under Tyrian rule
10th century BCE
Earliest sanctuary at Bamboula
9th century BCE
Sanctuaries rebuilt by Phoenicians
c. 850 BCE
Persian rule begins
545 BCE
Participation in Ionian revolt
499 BCE
Persian rule ends
332 BCE
Ptolemaic conquest and temple burning
312 BCE
Piraeus colony temple permission
233 BCE
Roman annexation of Cyprus
58 BCE
Earlier and later archaeological campaigns
Mycenaean settlement and copper exploitation
Late Bronze Age
Roman administrative appointment
2nd–3rd century CE
Earthquakes in the 1st century CE
76–77 CE
Destructive earthquakes in Late Antiquity
322 CE and 342 CE
Egyptian domination
570–545 BCE
Sargon Stele discovery
1845
Swedish excavations at Bamboula
October 1929–April 1930
Kathari area excavations
1959–1981
Discovery of Phoenician warship harbour
1987
Roman mosaic discovery in Larnaca
2016
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