The third Phoenician "world" is that of Gebal or Byblus.

Its limits would seem to be the Eleutherus on the north, and on the south the Tamyras, which would allow it a length of a little above eighty miles.

This district, it has been said, preserved to the last days of paganism a character which was original and well marked.

Within its limits the religious sentiment had more intensity and played a more important part in life than elsewhere in Phoenicia.

Byblus was a sort of Phoenician Jerusalem.