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What does Phoenicia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Phoenicia? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. the land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
  2. the trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
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Cilicia, Phoenicia, and Idumaea were doubtless recovered soon after the great defeat of Evagoras.
For example, a taxi driver reported that he had dropped two passengers at the Phoenicia Hotel on 12 February 2005 at approximately 0615 hours.
After the fall of Tyre to the Babylonians in 573 bce and the subjugation of Phoenicia, the early prosperity faded until the 4th century.
Following the Africa circumnavigation, Phoenicia will journey to Britain and is due to arrive this summer.
It is impossible to fix the year in which Phoenicia became independent of Assyria.
Zeus saw Europa for the first time on the beach at Sidon, Phoenicia where her father Agenor was king.

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