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Phoenicia

Coordinates: 34°07′25″N 35°39′04″E / 34.12361°N 35.65111°E / 34.12361; 35.65111

Phoenicia (UK /fˈnɪʃə/ or US /fəˈnʃə/; from the Greek: Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē meaning either "land of palm trees" or "purple country"; Arabic: فينيقية‎‎, Fīnīqīyah) was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the East Mediterranean coastal part of the Fertile Crescent, on the coastline of what is now Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Gaza, Syria and south west Turkey, though some colonies later reached the Western Mediterranean and even the Atlantic Ocean, the most famous being Carthage. The enterprising, sea-based Phoenician civilization spread across the Mediterranean between 1500 BC and 300 BC.


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