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nounan ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
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- tyre a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
- sur a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
- moloch god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
- ishtar Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
- tripoli the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
- saida the main city of ancient Phoenicia
- 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
- punic the Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
- sidon the main city of ancient Phoenicia
- phoenician of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants