Quote Originally Posted by keravnos View Post
On the specific question of the time of Alexander, you are right. However not 20 years later Demetrios Poliorketes (the besieger) took his title as such after conquering Salamis of Cyprus. Salamis was a Greek city, not a Phoenician one. Had the Phoenician holdings in Cyprus been as important (and wealthy) it makes sense that Demetrios would have opted for them instead. Not saying that they didn't exist, but we are talking about a single city Kition who prospered while Achaimenids were in charge (managing to control a quarter of the island), only to disappear completely during Alexanders' and Ptolemaic rule.
Of course, the scale of the discussed area is small in comparison to the rest of the Hellenistic world, but in Cyprus itself the Phoenician holdings from the fifth century until Alexander were significant, even if they were not the richest on the island.