Northern Canaan (in modern terms Lebanon, the Mediterranean coast of Syria, and far south-west coast of Turkey) remained inhabited by Canaanite-speaking peoples and was not a part of Aramea. These Canaanites coalesced into city states such as Tyre, Sidon, Berytus, Arvad, Simyra, Onoba and Tarshish. The term Phoenicia was applied to this region, but it is a later Greek application which was not used during the Assyrian period.[citation needed]