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- Phoenicia abstract "Phoenicia (UK /fɨˈnɪʃə/ or US /fəˈniːʃə/; from the Greek: Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē; Arabic: فينيقية, Fīnīqīyah) was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon. All major Phoenician cities were on the coastline of the Mediterranean, some colonies reaching the Western Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 3200 BC to 300 BC. The Phoenicians used the galley, a man-powered sailing vessel, and are credited with the invention of the bireme. They were famed in Classical Greece and Rome as 'traders in purple', referring to their monopoly on the precious purple dye of the murex snail, used, among other things, for royal clothing, and for the spread of their alphabets, from which almost all modern phonetic alphabets are derived.Although Egyptian seafaring expeditions had already been made to Byblos to bring back Lebanon Cedars as early as the 3rd millennium BC, continuous contact only occurred in the Egyptian New Empire period. In the Amarna tablets of the 14th century BC, people from the region called themselves Kenaani or Kinaani. Much later, in the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus writes that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα (Latinized: khna), a name Philo of Byblos later adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: "Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix".Phoenicia is really a Classical Greek term used to refer to the region of the major Canaanite port towns, and does not correspond exactly to a cultural identity that would have been recognised by the Phoenicians themselves. The term in Greek means 'land of purple', a reference to the valuable murex-shell dye they exported. It is uncertain to what extent the Phoenicians viewed themselves as a single ethnicity and nationality. Their civilization was organized in city-states, similar to ancient Greece. However, in terms of archaeology, language, life style and religion, there is little to set the Phoenicians apart as markedly different from other Semitic cultures of Canaan. As Canaanites, they were unique in their remarkable seafaring achievements.Each city-state was a politically independent unit. They could come into conflict and one city might be dominated by another city-state, although they would collaborate in leagues or alliances. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. Sarepta (modern day Sarafand) between Sidon and Tyre is the most thoroughly excavated city of the Phoenician homeland.The Phoenicians were the first state-level society to make extensive use of alphabets. The Phoenician alphabet is generally held to be the ancestor of almost all modern alphabets. They spoke Phoenician, a Semitic language of the Canaanite subgroup, closely related to Hebrew. However, due to the very slight differences in language, and the insufficient records of the time, whether Phoenician formed a separate and united dialect, or was merely a superficially defined part of a broader language continuum, is unclear. Through their maritime trade, the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to North Africa and Europe, where it was adopted by the Greeks, who later transmitted it to the Romans. In addition to their many inscriptions, the Phoenicians are believed to have left numerous other types of written sources, but most have not survived.".
- Phoenicia capital Byblos.
- Phoenicia capital Carthage.
- Phoenicia capital Tyre,_Lebanon.
- Phoenicia dissolutionYear "0539".
- Phoenicia foundingYear "3200".
- Phoenicia governmentType Monarchy.
- Phoenicia thumbnail Achaemenid_Empire.jpg?width=300.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink 2003-12-17.html.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink lookup?num=2331.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink pg3c_yahwism_and_baalism.pdf.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink 3vol.pdf.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink phoenicia.org.uk.
- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink phoenicia.org.
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- Phoenicia wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
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- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink 2_Chronicles.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink 2nd_millennium_BC.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Abdera,_Spain.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Abjad.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Adonis.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Adra,_Spain.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ahab.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ahiram.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ahiram_sarcophagus.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Akkadian_language.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_the_Great.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Algarve.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Algeria.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Algiers.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Alicante.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Almuñécar.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Alphabet.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Altiburus.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Amarna_letters.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink American_Journal_of_Human_Genetics.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Amun.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Egypt.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Egyptian.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greece.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Greek.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Rome.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Annaba.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Antigonus_II_Gonatas.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Arad,_Bahrain.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Armenia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Artaxerxes_III.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Arwad.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Asherah.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ashkelon.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ashtart.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Asian_people.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Assyria.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Astarte.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Athenian_democracy.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Augustine_of_Hippo.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Baal.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Baalat_Gebal.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Baalshamin.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Babylonia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bahrain.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Balsa_(Roman_town).
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Ba‘alat_Gebal.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Beirut.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bekalta.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bible.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Biblical_astronomy.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Biblical_names_of_stars.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bireme.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bizerte.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Books_of_Chronicles.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bosa.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Bronze_Age_collapse.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Byblos.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Cadmus.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Cagliari.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Calama_(Numidia).
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Canaan.
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- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Canaanite_languages.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Canaanite_religion.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Cartagena,_Colombia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Cartagena,_Spain.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Carthage.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Carthage,_Tunisia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Cassiterides.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:12th-century_BC_establishments_in_Asia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:6th-century_BC_disestablishments_in_Asia.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Near_East.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Syria.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Civilizations.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fertile_Crescent.
- Phoenicia wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Lebanon.