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Phoenicia   /fənˈiʃə/   Listen
Phoenicia

noun
1.
An ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean.  Synonym: Phenicia.



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"Phoenicia" Quotes from Famous Books



... ad Gaium, sec. 36), "Jerusalem is the metropolis not only of Judaea but of very many lands, on account of the colonies which on various occasions ('epi xairwn) it has sent out into the adjoining countries of Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, and Coelesyria, and into the more remote Pamphylia, Cilicia, the greater part of Asia Minor as far as to Bithynia and the remotest parts of Pontus; likewise into Europe—Thessaly, Boeotia, Macedonia, AEtolia, Attica, Argos, ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen
... shore.] Phoenicia, where Europa, the daughter of Agenor mounted on the back of Jupiter, in his shape of ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante


Words linked to "Phoenicia" :   Astarte, geographic region, geographic area, geographical area, Utica, Carthage, Dagon, geographical region, Ashtoreth


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