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4 days ago · Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
- History of Phoenicia
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic...
- Phoenicia (Disambiguation)
Phoenicia may also refer to: . Historical places. Phoenice...
- History of Phoenicia
21 hours ago · Canaan (/ ˈ k eɪ n ən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan; Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
2 days ago · Lebanon is located in West Asia between latitudes 33° and 35° N and longitudes 35° and 37° E. Its land straddles the "northwest of the Arabian Plate ". [171] The country's surface area is 10,452 square kilometres (4,036 sq mi) of which 10,230 square kilometres (3,950 sq mi) is land.
2 days ago · Its history has been shaped by its recurrent status as a border town between Egyptian and Syrian powers. In 217 bce it was the site of Ptolemy IV Philopator ’s decisive victory in the fourth conflict between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid dynasties over control of the southern Levant ( see Syrian Wars ).
1 day ago · Tyre ( / ˈtaɪər /; Arabic: صُور, romanized : Ṣūr; Phoenician: 𐤑𐤓, romanized: Ṣūr; Greek: Τύρος, translit. Týros) is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, [1] though in medieval times for some centuries by just a small population.
4 days ago · The Druze faith is one of the major religious groups in the Levant, with between 800,000 and a million adherents. They are found primarily in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, with small communities in Jordan. They make up 5.5% of the population of Lebanon, 3% of Syria and 1.6% of Israel.
3 days ago · The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a hilly region in southwest Syria. Most of the region has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War, and subject to a de facto Israeli annexation in 1981.
