Phoenicia
WordNet
noun
(1) An ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
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Proper noun
Phoenicia
- 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.
- the trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.