How do you use Phoenicia in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Phoenicia meaning
- 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.
- The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
Synonyms of Phoenicia
Phoenicia vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Phoenicia
- The main meaning on this page is: 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. | The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
- Useful related words include: phenicia, geographical area, geographic area, geographical region.
- Possible Dutch translations are: fenicië.
- In the example corpus, phoenicia often appears in combinations such as: the phoenicia, of phoenicia, phoenicia was.
Context around Phoenicia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phoenicia
- In this selection, "phoenicia" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, company, hotel, name, singer, fire and malta stand out and add context to how "phoenicia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aram and phoenicia successfully maintaining and at the phoenicia ballroom floriana. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phoenicia" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phoenicia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Phoenicia was a cosmopolitan centre for many nations and cultures. (10 words)
He campaigned in Aram and Phoenicia, successfully maintaining Babylonian rule in these regions. (13 words)
Proudly supported by The Phoenicia Malta, the preferred hotel in Malta for US artists. (14 words)
The name 'Phoenicia' is connected with the Greek word for "purple", apparently referring to the same product, but it is difficult to state with certainty whether the Greek word came from the name, or vice versa. (36 words)
The 2020 edition of the Maltese Islands Festival of drama, dance, music and singing will be held from Wednesday to next Sunday at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, and at the Phoenicia Ballroom, Floriana. (32 words)
Possible evidence for the described wealth of Solomon and his kingdom was discovered in ancient silver-hoards, which were found in Israel and Phoenicia and recognized for their importance in 2003. (31 words)
Example sentences (18)
At the Phoenicia, singer-songwriter Claire Tonna presents Body of a Thousand Hearts – a concert resplendent with resilience, courage and unwavering spirit.
One of the works by Runo Bo Jacobsen on display at The Palm Court Lounge, The Phoenicia.
The M. F. Whitney Hose Company, Phoenicia Fire District Company 1, would like to thank all the town residents who have supported us with donations.
Proudly supported by The Phoenicia Malta, the preferred hotel in Malta for US artists.
The 2020 edition of the Maltese Islands Festival of drama, dance, music and singing will be held from Wednesday to next Sunday at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, and at the Phoenicia Ballroom, Floriana.
However, colonists from the eastern Mediterranean kingdom of Phoenicia (most of modern Lebanon) established the city of Carthage on the Gulf of Tunis (present-day Tunisia).
Having completed the subjugation of Phoenicia, and a campaign against Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar set himself to rebuild and adorn the city of Babylon, and constructed canals, aqueducts, temples and reservoirs.
He campaigned in Aram and Phoenicia, successfully maintaining Babylonian rule in these regions.
Importantly, the number of colonists coming from Greece was much larger than those coming from Phoenicia.
Jesus says, "No prophet is accepted in his own country," and then mentions Elijah, saying that there were many widows in Israel, but Elijah was sent to one in Phoenicia.
Malta Hotel Phoenicia in Floriana Several Art Deco buildings were constructed in Malta in the 1930s and 1950s.
Phoenicia maintained an uneasy tributary relationship with the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires during the 9th to 6th centuries BC.
Phoenicia was a cosmopolitan centre for many nations and cultures.
Possible evidence for the described wealth of Solomon and his kingdom was discovered in ancient silver-hoards, which were found in Israel and Phoenicia and recognized for their importance in 2003.
The name 'Phoenicia' is connected with the Greek word for "purple", apparently referring to the same product, but it is difficult to state with certainty whether the Greek word came from the name, or vice versa.
The purple cloth of Tyre in Phoenicia was well known far and wide and was associated by the Romans with nobility and royalty.
Thus, of their ancient writings we have little of major interest left to us by Carthage, or by Phoenicia the country of origin of the city founders.
Trade routes of Phoenicia (Byblos, Sidon, Tyre) & Carthage Phoenician and Punic merchant ventures were often run as a family enterprise, putting to work its members and its subordinate clients.
Common combinations with phoenicia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the phoenicia 5×
- of phoenicia 3×
- phoenicia was 3×
- phoenicia and 2×
- and phoenicia 2×
- in phoenicia 2×