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
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 - 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
The amazing name Phoenicia: meaning and etymology By the first century, the name Phoenicia referred to a narrow strip of land just north of Judea, and occurs in the New Testament in Acts 11:19, 15:3 and 21:2 only But much more so, the name Phoenicia also referred to an ancient phenomenon that was still spoken of in terms of hushed wonder: a mystical Paradisical world of maritime trade that had somehow declined into mundanity, but not before
Phoenicians - Phoenicians in Phoenicia The people of Phoenicia—the land now known as Lebanon—were assumed to have had their cities destroyed by the Sea Peoples as well So it was believed Phoenician society began after 1200 BC Then the city of Troy was uncovered, along with Mycenae and Knossos
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