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===Phoenicians===
Literary evidence suggests an early Phoenician presence at [[Kition]] which was under Tyrian rule at the beginning of the 10th century BC.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hadjisavvas|first=Sophocles|title=The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume I|year=2013|publisher=Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications|url=http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/publications/2012/hadjisavvas.html|page=1|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111945/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/publications/2012/hadjisavvas.html|archive-date=2016-03-04}}</ref> Some [[Phoenicia]]n [[merchants]] who were believed to come from [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] [[colony|colonized]] the area and expanded the political influence of Kition. After c. 850 BC the sanctuaries [at the Kathari site] were rebuilt and reused by the Phoenicians.<ref name="ReferenceC-plaque excerpt">Excerpt of text on the only plaque at the Kathari site (as of 2013).</ref> [[File:Kition, Zeus Keraunios.jpg|thumb|Zeus Keraunios, 500-480 BC, Nicosia museum]]The oldest cemetery of Salamis has produced children's burials in Canaanite jars, indication of Phoenician presence already in the LCIIIB 11th&nbsp;century. Similar jar burials have been found in cemeteries in Kourion-Kaloriziki and Palaepaphos-Skales near Kouklia. In Skales, many Levantine imports and Cypriot imitations of Levantine forms have been found and point to a Phoenician expansion even before the end of the 11th century.