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Phœnicia

Phœnicia is the obsolete spelling of Phoenicia.

Meaning of Phoenicia

Proper noun

Phoenicia

  1. 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.
  2. The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

Questions about Phœnicia

What is Phœnicia the obsolete spelling of?
Phœnicia is the obsolete spelling of Phoenicia.

Words near Phœnicia in the dictionary

  1. phœbes
  2. Phœbus
  3. Phœby
  4. Phœbë
  5. phœnices
  6. Phœnicia
  7. Phœnician
  8. Phœnicians
  9. phœnicopter
  10. Phœnicopteridæ
  11. phœnicopters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Phœnicia (page history and authors); Phoenicia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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