Being a society of independent city-states, the Phoenicians apparently did not have a term to denote the land of Phoenicia as a whole; instead, demonyms were often derived from the name of the city an individual hailed … See more

The people now known as Phoenicians, similar to the neighboring Israelites, Moabites and Edomites, were a Canaanite people. Canaanites are a group of ancient Semitic-speaking peoples See more

The Phoenicians were not a nation in the political sense. However, they were organized into independent city-states that shared a common … See more

The religious practices and beliefs of Phoenicia were generally common to those of their neighbors in Canaan, which in turn shared characteristics common throughout the See more

Since little has survived of Phoenician records or literature, most of what is known about their origins and history comes from the accounts of other civilizations and inferences from … See more

Trade
The Phoenicians served as intermediaries between the disparate civilizations that spanned the … See more

Since very little of the Phoenicians' writings have survived, much of what is known about their culture and society comes from … See more