September 23, 2026

Algiers traces its earliest settlement to around 1200 BCE, when this seafaring people set up a small trading post at the site, and their traders also founded Rota in Andalusia at roughly the same time they founded Cádiz. Which ancient people is this?

A Phrygians
B Dorians
C Ionians
D Phoenicians

The Phoenicians, based in city-states like Tyre and Sidon, seeded trading colonies across the Mediterranean from about 1200 BCE, including Algiers and Rota in Andalusia. Their alphabet went on to shape Greek, Latin, Arabic and virtually every modern European script.

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