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Phoenicia
Phoenicia was the ancient coastal region of the Levant, roughly modern Lebanon with parts of Syria and northern Israel, home of city-states such as Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Arwad. From about 1200 BCE its merchants and sailors traded across the Mediterranean, founded colonies such as Carthage and spread their alphabet. The region later fell under Assyrian, Persian, Hellenistic and Roman rule.
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