Phoenicia - Wikipedia Phoenician settlements and trade routes across the Mediterranean starting from around 800 BC [1] Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon and the Syrian coast [5]
Phoenicia | Definition, Location, History, Religion . . . Phoenicia, ancient region along the eastern Mediterranean corresponding to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel Its location among major trade routes made the Phoenicians notable merchants, traders, and colonizers
Phoenicia - World History Encyclopedia 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
Who Were the Phoenicians? - Biblical Archaeology Society Stern identifies the Phoenicians as Canaanites who survived into the first millennium B C E : The Phoenicians were the late Canaanites of the first millennium B C E (Iron Age through Roman period), descendants of the Canaanites of the second millennium B C E (Middle Bronze Age through Late Bronze Age)
Phoenicia - Encyclopedia. com Famous as merchants and sailors, they never formed a single political unit, and Phoenicia was dominated by Egypt before c 1200 bc and by successive Near Eastern empires from the 9th century bc
Phoenicia Phoenicia; an Asiatic country on the Syrian coast It was bounded on the north by the river Eleutherus, on the south by Mount Carmel, and on the east by Palestine and Coelesyria It largely consisted of fertile, well-watered valleys, its chief rivers being the Eleutherus, the Sabbaticus, the Tripolis, the Adonis, the Lycus , the Magoras, the
Phoenicians: Civilization and History - TimeMaps Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean
Phoenicia - Encyclopedia of World Geography ANCIENT PHOENICIA, A LOOSE confederation of city-states existing between 3000 B C E and 146 B C E , was located where LEBANON is now The culture was known for seafaring commerce and trade, and colonizing
Phoenician history - Wikipedia Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon [1] [2] At its height between 1100 and 200 BC, Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to the Iberian Peninsula