The city is mentioned for the first time in 1 Maccabees, 15:37, as a Phœnician port;[2][3] Pliny[4] places it between Tripoli, on the south, and the River Eleutherus, on the north; Strabo,[5] near the Eleutherus; Peutinger's "Table", agreeing with Hierocles, George of Cyprus, and others, indicates it between Tripoli and Antaradus.