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Phenicia

Phenicia proper noun: dated spelling of Phoenicia.

Proper noun

Phenicia

  1. Dated spelling of Phoenicia
    • In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II.1882, [John] Cunningham Geikie, Hours With the Bible, or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge, third edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 184

Questions about Phenicia

What does Phenicia mean?
Phenicia means dated spelling of Phoenicia.
What part of speech is Phenicia?
Phenicia is a proper noun.

Words near Phenicia in the dictionary

  1. phengophobia
  2. phenibut
  3. phenic
  4. phenicarbazide
  5. pheniceous
  6. Phenicia
  7. Phenician
  8. Phenicians
  9. phenicine
  10. phenicol
  11. phenicols

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