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phoenicia
/fəˈniʃə/
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What does phoenicia mean?
proper noun
- The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
- The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
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Those who governed in Cyprus, put that island into his possession, and Phoenicia, Tyre only excepted, was surrendered to him.
The rite of circumcision dates back to the first days of Phoenicia, Egypt, and the Cushites.
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In Phoenicia numerous fetes were instituted to rejoice with Astarte in her conception.
As the hieroglyphs, cuneiform inscriptions, and various other records of antiquity are read, the development of this belief can be studied in Egypt, India, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, and Phoenicia.
His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings: Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assigned Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia.