Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic-speaking thalassocratic civilization that originated in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. At its height …

Definition The Purple People. The purple dye manufactured and used in Tyre for the robes of Mesopotamian royalty gave Phoenicia the... Trading Middlemen. The Phoenicians were …

History [ edit] Origins [ edit]. The Canaanite culture that gave rise to the Phoenicians apparently developed in situ from the earlier... Emergence during the Late Bronze Age (1479–1200 BC) [ …

Phoenicia, ancient region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean that corresponds to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel. Its location along major trade …

The first Syrian war, marking the beginning of the contest between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids for Phoenicia and Coele-Syria. c. 195 BCE After the battle at Panion, the …

Phoenician History. The Phoenicians were great sea traders during the course of ancient history, so they interacted with everyone. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians and …

HISTORY OF. P H N I C I A. by GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A. First Published 1889 by Longmans, Green, and Co. Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford …

Roman Phoenicia In 64 BC Phoenicia was incorporated into the Roman province of Syria though Aradus, Sidon, and Tyre retained self-government. Berytus (Beirut), relatively …

An open-work ivory panel of a human-headed sphinx, c.900-700 BC, found at Fort Shalmaneser in northern Iraq. The people known to history as the Phoenicians occupied a narrow tract of …

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