How To Use Phoenicia In A Sentence
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This city was settled by Phoenicians in the archaic period and it challenged the rising Roman Republic in three wars culminating in its own destruction in the second century B.C.E.
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The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
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Nevertheless the great confederation of the Canaanitic cities (perhaps to be identified with the Hyksos), backed the Phoenician cities, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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In recent years Timber Lake Camp, a co-ed sleep-away camp in Phoenicia, N.Y., has started employing “friendship coaches” to work with campers to help every child become friends with everyone else.
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A fortified citadel has stood on this spot since the Phoenicians ruled Malta, back in 1000 BC.
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The natives had probably smelted it themselves in their rude bloomeries, or obtained it from the Phoenicians in small quantities in exchange for skins and food, or tin.
Industrial Biography
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It was 1100BC when the Phoenician traders first founded a settlement on a site of the town that now proudly boasts it is the oldest continually inhabited city in western Europe.
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Jesus welcomed outsiders: a Samaritan leper, a Syro-Phoenician woman, a Roman centurion, the good Samaritan and others.
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The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic and in Akkadian ilu as an ordinary word for god.
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Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed.
Southern Arabia
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But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.] 58 See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii. 269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Phoenicians about 1000 B.C. (10) This alludes to the story told by Plutarch ( "Caesar", 47) that, at Patavium, Caius Cornelius, a man reputed for skill in divination, and a friend of Livy the historian, was sitting to watch the birds that day.
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
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A short distance before Banyas, once a Phoenician port, 34 miles south of Latakia, we saw the enormous citadel of Marqab towering atop a mountain.
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians; as the inhabitants of England were successively called Britons or
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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[406] It was only the language of the inhabitants of Leptis that had experienced a change, in consequence of their matrimonial connections with the Numidians, otherwise they had for the most part preserved their Sidonian, that is, Phoenician, laws and habits, being separated from the inhabited part of Numidia by extensive deserts, which was also the reason of the Numidian king's seldom residing at Leptis, although the town belonged to his kingdom.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Two days of marching along the coast brought Alexander to the important Phoenician trading center of Byblos.
Alexander the Great
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With the Phoenician sages the cosmogony was their theogony and 'vice versa'.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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But the land of the Phoenician was a lovely land, which bound him to itself; and wherever he moved his heart still turned to the pleasant abodes of
Lectures and Essays
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Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood.
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But Joe chid me, an 'said' tweer a heathenish thing sticked theer by the Phoenicians, as comed for tin in Solomon's times.
Lying Prophets
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That serpent which is sucking at the blood of the people, the property of the nomarchs, and the power of the pharaoh is the Phoenician!
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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The oil was sold in Moroccan markets even before the Phoenicians arrived, yet the hardy argan tree, called the Moroccan ironwood by some people, has been slowly disappearing.
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This fly was so grievous a pest that the Phoenicians invoked against it the aid of their god Baal-zebub (q.v.).
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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It descends from the Phoenician symbol bth, which was adopted by the Greeks as beta, B, then by the Romans as B.
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Even the name Punic—which comes from the word Phoenician—was given to them by outsiders.
An Empire of the Mediterranean
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[11] This ancient city Hamath, which is joined with Arpad, or Aradus, and with Damascus, 2 Kings 18: 34; Isaiah 36: 19; Jeremiah 49: 23, cities of Syria and Phoenicia, near the borders of Judea, was also itself evidently near the same borders, though long ago utterly destroyed.
Antiquities of the Jews
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The word Phoenician was printed with an oe ligature.
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890
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Isaiah (xix. 18) speaks of the two dialects as identical, and the so-called Phoenician inscriptions that have been preserved to us show that the differences between them were hardly appreciable.
Patriarchal Palestine
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The adapter learned from his informant that each regular stipple of the Phoenician consonantal alphabet represented a particular recurrent syllable of the Phoenician language.
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After the Egyptologists of the school of De Rouge 36 thought they had demonstrated that the familiar symbols of the Phoenician alphabet had been copied from that modified form of Egyptian hieroglyphics known as the hieratic writing, the Assyriologists came forward to prove that certain characters of the Babylonian syllabary also show a likeness to the alphabetical characters that seemingly could not be due to chance.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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The Phoenicians, for example, were intrepid traders who used the sea as a "superhighway".
Tonight's TV highlights
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Scene: A mudflat in really olden times, someplace like Phoenicia or Assyria, one of those places everybody's heard of but nobody can find.
Tales from the Golden Age
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The mold-blown scallop shell vase in Plate XIII is decorated with festoons reminiscent of Phoenician glass.
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Among the highlights, a silver didrachm from Akragas (lot #9) brought $630 against a pre-auction estimate of $300 while a silver shekel from Byblos in Phoenicia (Lot 50) estimated at $750 brought $1050.
The ACCG Benefit Auction nets $45,811 in active bidding. : Coin Collecting News
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Libya boasts the ruins of ancient Greek outposts, Phoenician settlements and Berber cities.
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The ancient Egyptians were seafarers and Roman galleys, Phoenician ships and the fleet of the mighty Ottoman Empire plied these waters.
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This rich agricultural area, which was sprinkled with old Phoenician harbours, was well within the known world of the Mediterranean trading economy.
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In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths.
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When he was very small a group of Phoenician sailors came ashore for trading and stayed over a year.
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The alphabet is usually ascribed to the phoenicians.
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The Greek alphabet was borrowed and adapted from the Phoenicians by the eighth century B.C., so that the aleph, bet, and gimel of Phoenician became the alpha, beta, and gamma of Greek.
Alexander the Great
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The Battle of Salamis
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We mark that this day was sacred to the goddess Venus, to whom the Phoenicians consecrated the fish.
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Her theories are reminiscent of the diffusionist theories that argue that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and/or the Chinese.
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And the first letters called Phoenician from Cadmus are four times four, or sixteen; and of those that were afterward added, Palamedes found four, and Simonides four more.
Symposiacs
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For its part, the Latin alphabet was adapted from the Etruscan, which came from the Greek, which had modified the Phoenician alphabet, which around three thousand years ago was an innovation of far-reaching and radical impact.
The English Is Coming!
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Remember The Phoenician Whose handsome bones were picked in whispers?
BEHINDLINGS
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As the Greek name implies, the trireme had three rows of rowers on each side, developed from earlier Greek and Phoenician biremes.
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They are clearly miniature “houses for the gods,” as witnessed both by their clear architectural form and by the fact that in all West Semitic languages Canaanite, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc. the word ba¯yit/bêt is translated as both “house” and “temple.”
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On the same text Dr. Abbott says: "The term Canaan was the older title of the country, and the inhabitants were successively termed Canaanites and Phoenicians, as the inhabitants of England were successively call Brittons and Englishmen.
Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
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It originated as the Phoenician symbol taw, which the Greeks adopted and adapted as tau, which was in turn adopted by the Etruscans and then the Romans as T.
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Alexander the Great and his generals introduced the practice to the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Carthaginians.
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Pliny the Younger gives us the romantic tale that Phoenician merchants first noticed that glass was formed under their cooking pots on the beach.
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Acre is a historic walled port - city with continuous settlement from the Phoenician period.
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The Great Mother was in Phoenicia called Astarte; she was a form of
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed.
Southern Arabia
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The Phoenicians were the pioneers in the seventh century BC, scouting for the imperial purple dye found in the murex sea snails of the Moroccan coast.
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review
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It could be used as a fighting platform, or, as in the Phoenician biremes of Sennacherib and Sargon, as accommodation for passengers though this does not seem to have been the practice in Greece.
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For when he calls Joppa, "Joppa of the Phoenicians," -- he does not conclude Joppa within Phoenicia; but because the sea, washing upon that shore of Palestine, was divided in common speech into the Phoenician and the Egyptian sea (so Strabo before, "Afterward
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Fijian, or Fijician, results, by a slight change of letters, from the word Phoenician; and there can be no doubt that the Fijians are descendants of those Phoenicians who, according to
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
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It originated as the Phoenician symbol qop, which had the value of a voiceless uvular plosive: a k like sound made well back in the mouth.
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Khur-om, Phoenician artificer, meaning of the name of, 81-u.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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A vessel of considerably greater size than this, but of the same class -- impelled, that is, by one bank of oars only -- is indicated by certain coins, which have been regarded by some critics as Phoenician, by others as belonging to Cilicia. [
History of Phoenicia
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There doesn't seem to be any trace of pronominal affixes attached to verbs like we might find in many other languages that surrounded it like the inflection hell endured in Latin, Phoenician and Greek and it opted for a more analytic approach by using independent pronouns, much like in Modern English.
Enclitics and noun phrases in Etruscan
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Five or six stand in the shade of a terebinth, watching a Phoenician juggle bright purple balls.
Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 3)
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His orb itself, or later the god in youthful human form, might be pictured as emerging from a lotus on the primaeval waters, or from a marsh-bird's egg, a conception which influenced the later Phoenician cosmogeny.
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition
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No, we were Maronite Christians, and according to my old man we were Phoenicians.
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
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Others say she was an Ithacan woman sold as a slave by the Phoenicians; other, Calliope the Muse; others again Polycasta, the daughter of Nestor.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Arabia is _par excellence_ the land of spices, and was the main source from which the ancient world in general, and Phoenicia in particular, obtained frankincense, cinnamon, cassia, myrrh, calamus or sweet-cane, and ladanum. [
History of Phoenicia
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What we call ktav ivri is a cuneiform script, is an abjad offshoot of the ancient Semitic alphabet, barely discernible from the Phoenician alphabet from which it was derived.
DovBear
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Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Vandals, Normans, Arabs, Turks, Spanish and French all laid their mark on the island.
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Phoenicians greatly flourished there, and gave their colony the name of Hispalis, which it remained content with till the Romans came and called the town Julia Romula, and Julius Caesar fenced it with the strong walls which the Moorish conquerors, after the
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Phoenician art, which issued, as it would seem, originally from mere troglodytism, was, from the time when it arrived at the need of ornament, essentially an art of imitation.
History of Phoenicia
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The name "Easter" comes from the Saxon Eostre (Phoenician Astarte), goddess of the Moon and measurer of time.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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What is certain is, that the old Phoenician name of Hispalis outlived the Roman name of
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Various subdivisions and subgroups in Athens also had numerous other cultic associations - metics from Phoenicia and metics from Corinth, for instance, had their own cults.
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He applied mind to warfare, introducing artillery, Phoenician siege-technique, and the quinquereme.
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The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war.
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When the cuneiform syllabary was superseded in Palestine by the so-called Phoenician alphabet we do not know.
Patriarchal Palestine
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The Semites seem to have produced no mysteries -- there is no record of such cults in Babylonia, Syria, Phoenicia, the Hebrew territory, or Arabia; Semitic religion was objective, simple, nonmystical. [
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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The Saviour's visit to Phoenicia and the miracle there performed had a yet wider purpose.
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He had been studying Eratosthenes' intriguing map, and was convinced that Phoenician sailors had circumnavigated the world.
