Phoenician
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Phoenician may refer to:
Phoenician may also be:
- PhoeniciaPhoeniciaPhoenicia , was an ancient civilization in Canaan which covered most of the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Several major Phoenician cities were built on the coastline of the Mediterranean. It was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean from 1550...
, the ancient civilization - Phoenician alphabetPhoenician alphabetThe Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1050 BC, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. It was used for the writing of Phoenician, a Northern Semitic language, used by the civilization of Phoenicia...
- Phoenician language
Phoenician may also be:
- A native or resident of Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
See also
- Phoenix (mythology)Phoenix (mythology)The phoenix or phenix is a mythical sacred firebird that can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indian and Phoenicians....
- Phoenicia (disambiguation)Phoenicia (disambiguation)Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of Canaan in parts of present day Lebanon, Syria and Israel.Phoenicia or Phoenician may also refer to:*Phoenician language, a language spoken in ancient Phoenicia...
- Venetian (disambiguation)