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Phenicia

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





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"Phenicia" Quotes from Famous Books



... might have arisen out of this circumstance was removed by the long pre-existing intercourse of other Semites, of every grade of civilisation, with the Egyptians. In Mesopotamia and elsewhere, as in Phenicia, Semitic people had attained to a social organisation as advanced as that of the Egyptians; Semites had conquered and occupied Lower Egypt for centuries. So extensively had Semitic influences penetrated Egypt ...
— The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study - Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley


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


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