Meaning of Phoenicia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Obsolete spelling of Phoenicia.
   alt-of, obsolete
2. 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.
3. The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

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Examples

“Here we came into the part of Syria, which was the ancient Phœnicia, a country always remarkable for its commerce, the inhabitants of which went out in many colonies, and peopled Carthage, Sicily, and ſeveral other countries.”

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