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Anyway, the phonetic alphabit is thought now to have originated in Egypt, not Phoenecia, and it seems based on some hieroglyphic characters.
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Anyway, the phonetic alphabit is thought now to have originated in Egypt, not Phoenecia, and it seems based on some hieroglyphic characters.
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Comparative studies between Jews and the Lebanese who inhabit what was once Phoenecia, the best-known Canaanite civilization seems to point in the same direction.
Yossi Nagar, Forensics and Israelite Origins James F. McGrath 2008
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This would leave "Iraq's three Sunni-majority provinces as a truncated state that might eventually choose to unify with a Syria that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented Greater Lebanon: Phoenecia reborn."
US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown 2006
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Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenecia, Greece, and Rome, have all been claimed for the Aryan, but the spade has unearthed stone that bears sentient witness to the fact that Africa has been the pioneer in the field of civilization.
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Disguised as a military officer, he visited the persecuted Churches of Syria, Phoenecia, and Palestine, exhorting the afflicted Catholics to remain faithful to their faith, ordaining orthodox priests where they were needed, and in many other ways assisting the Catholic bishops in the difficult exercise of their duties during these troublesome times.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Like Samaria, they had revolted at the death of Tiglath-Pileser; and Shalmaneser, consequently, marched into Phoenecia at the beginning of his reign, probably in his first year, overran the entire country, and forced all the cities to resume their position of dependence.
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Northward the name seems never to have passed beyond Cape Posideium (Possidi) at the foot of Mount Casius, the tract between this and the range of Taurus being always known as Syria, never as Phoenecia or Phoenicé.
History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857
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Paris surprised the King of Phoenecia by night, and carried off many of his treasures and captives, among whom probably were these
The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832
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New look, new American menu and still good food at the Phoenecia in West Seattle
The Seattle Times 2010
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