"Phoenicia (/fəˈnɪʃə/; from Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη, Phoiníkē) was a thalassocratic, ancient Semitic-speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in the Levant, specifically Lebanon, but also including coastal Syria ...
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and north Palestine, in the west of the Fertile Crescent. Scholars agree that it was centered on the coastal areas of modern day Lebanon and included parts of what are now northern Israel and western Syria reaching as far north as Arwad, but there is some dispute as to how far south it went, with a suggested border area being Ashkelon. Its colonies later reached the Western Mediterranean, such as Carthage in North Africa, and even the Atlantic Ocean, such as Cádiz in Spain. The civilization spread across the Mediterranean between 1500 BC and 300 BC." - (en.wikipedia.org 07.02.2020)
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