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PHENICIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
Synonyms:
Phenicia; Phoenicia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Phenicia"):
Carthage (an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697)
Utica (an ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage); destroyed by Arabs around 700 AD)
Domain member region:
Phoenician (the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world)
Ashtoreth; Astarte (an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar)
Dagon (god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines)
