Phoenicia

American  

[fi-nish-uh, -nee-shuh] / fɪˈnɪʃ ə, -ˈni ʃə /

Or Phenicia

noun

1. an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.

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Phoenicia British  

/ fəˈnɪʃɪə, -ˈniː- /

noun

1. an ancient maritime country extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Lebanon Mountains, now occupied by the coastal regions of Lebanon and parts of Syria and Israel: consisted of a group of city-states, at their height between about 1200 and 1000 _bc , that were leading traders of the ancient world

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Phoenicia Cultural  

1. An ancient nation of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its territory included what are today coastal areas of modern Israel and Lebanon. The Phoenicians were famed as traders and sailors. They developed an alphabet that was eventually adapted by the Greeks and Romans into the alphabet used in writing English. In the Phoenicians' alphabet, the marks stand for individual sounds rather than for whole words or syllables, as in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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Phoenicia

A member of Daphne’s family confirmed she had visited the Phoenicia Hotel on Aug. 17 and 26 and had traveled abroad with Peter from Sept. 16 to Sept. 21.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2019

According to treasure-hunter lore, Schultz’s minions buried a steel box filled with millions of dollars somewhere along the banks of the Esopus Creek near rustic small-town Phoenicia, N.Y.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2019

Also in Phoenicia is a popular tubing destination, Esopus Creek.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019

The Phoenicia Hotel sits across the street from the carcass of an abandoned building that still bears the pockmarks of a more violent time in Lebanese history.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2017

Babylonia and Assyria were afterwards separated; Babylonia formed one satrapy, Syria and Assyria a second, Phoenicia and Arabia a third.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

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