NOUN
- an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
How To Use Phenicia In A Sentence
- And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
- Frankincense they collect by burning the storax, which is brought thence to the Hellenes by the Phenicians, by burning this, I say, so as to produce smoke they take it; for these trees which produce frankincense are guarded by winged serpents, small in size and of various colours, which watch in great numbers about each tree, of the same kind as those which attempt to invade Egypt: [97a] and they cannot be driven away from the trees by any other thing but only the smoke of storax. The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
- These Phenician mines are in that part of Thasos which is between the places called Ainyra and Koinyra and opposite The History of Herodotus