Phoenicia

(noun)

An ancient Semitic maritime trading culture situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent.

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  • city-state
  • bireme
  • Cyrus the Great
  • Alexander the Great

Examples of Phoenicia in the following topics:

  • The Phoenicians

    • Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent near modern-day Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria.
    • One of its kings, the priest Ithobaal (887–856 BCE), ruled Phoenicia as far north as Beirut and Cyprus.
    • The collection of city-states constituting Phoenicia came to be characterized by outsiders and the Phoenicians as Sidonia or Tyria.
    • Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Phoenicia in 539 BCE.
    • The Persians divided Phoenicia into four vassal kingdoms: Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, and Byblos.
  • The Decline of Ancient Egypt

    • Egypt was joined with Cyprus and Phoenicia in the sixth satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, also called the 27th Dynasty.
  • The Assyrians

    • It overthrew the Twenty-Fifth dynasty of Egypt, and conquered a number of other notable civilizations, including Babylonia, Elam, Media, Persia, Phoenicia/Canaan, Aramea (Syria), Arabia, Israel, and the Neo-Hittites.
  • The New Kingdom

    • Toward the end of this dynasty, the Hittites had expanded their influence into Phoenicia and Canaan, the outcome of which would be inherited by the rulers of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
  • The Sultanates of Somalia

    • Already in the classical (ancient) period, the Somali city-states of Mosylon, Opone, Malao, Sarapion, Mundus, Essina and Tabae developed a lucrative trade network connecting with merchants from Phoenicia, Ptolemic Egypt, Greece, Parthian Persia, Sheba, Nabataea and the Roman Empire.
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