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Mar 19, 2018 · Definition. Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city -states located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel. The Phoenicians were a great maritime people, known for their mighty ships adorned with horses' heads in honor of their god of the sea, Yamm ...
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May 9, 2024 · Phoenician, person who inhabited one of the city-states of ancient Phoenicia, such as Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, or Beirut, or one of their colonies. Located along eastern Mediterranean trade routes, the Phoenician city-states produced notable merchants, traders, and colonizers. By the 2nd millennium bce they had settled in the Levant, North Africa ...
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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. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician śpt knʿn lit. ' language of Canaan ' [2] ) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon .
- attested in Canaan proper from the 11th century BC to the 2nd century BC
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Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language which originated in about the 11th century BC in what is now Lebannon, Syria and Israel, an area then known as Pūt in Phoenician and Ancient Egyptian, Canaan in Biblical Hebrew, Old Arabic and Aramaic, and Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē) / Phoenicia in Greek and Latin. Phoenician spread around the ...
• Phoenician and Punic by Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet & Robert Hawley, in Blackwell Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Language (2020) • Phoenician and Punic by Jo Ann Hacket, in The ancient languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia (2008) • Phoenician by Holger Gzella, in Languages from the world of the Bible (2011)
