What is "phoenicia"

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of Canaan in parts of present day Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

"Phoenicia" may also refer to:

• the area of modern Lebanon in antiquity (also called "Syro-Phoenicia"):
  • Achaemenid Phoenicia
  • Phoenicia under Hellenistic rule
  • Phoenicia under Roman rule
    • Phoenice (Roman province), Roman imperial province encompassing ancient Phoenicia
• Phoenicia (periodical), a Montreal-based Lebanese / pan-Arab publication, weekly now monthly

• Finike, a Turkish district historically named Phoenicus
• Phoenicia, New York, a New York village
  • Phoenicia Railroad Station, a train station in Phoenicia, New York
• Phoenicia Hotel Beirut, a 5 star hotel located in Beirut, Lebanon
• Hotel Phoenicia, a 5 star hotel located in Floriana, Malta

Phoenicia ( pronounced féniisya in Arabic) was a Montreal-based Canadian Lebanese / pan-Arab publication that started in December 2003 as a weekly newspaper.

Beginning of 2011, and after 6 years as a weekly newspaper, it continued publishing once every two weeks (26 issues per year) and starting June 2013, became a monthly publication (12 issues per year). It stopped publication in April 2014.

Phoenicia was a multilingual newspaper that had published since its start in 2003 in three languages: Arabic, French and English. Beginning with its 16 September 2011, Phoenicia added a fourth language section in Armenian published once every two weeks. When Phoenicia turned into a monthly publication, the Armenian news page was discontinued with last Armenian page supplement published on 3 May 2013. 43 Armenian supplement pages were published in total.

Phoenicia was distributed as a free newspaper throughout Lebanese, Arab and Armenian communities in Montreal, Laval and South Shore ( Quebec), in Ottawa ( Ontario) and in Halifax ( Nova Scotia).

Phoenicia ( or ; from the , ; , ) was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centred on the coastline of what is now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, though some colonies reached the Western Mediterranean and even the Atlantic Ocean. It was an enterprising sea-based civilisation and spread across the Mediterranean from 1500 BC to 300 BC.

Phoenicia is really a Classical Greek term used to refer to the region of the major Canaanite port towns, and it does not correspond exactly to a cultural identity that would have been recognised by the Phoenicians themselves, vaguely comparable to the Hanseatic League. Their civilization was organized in city-states, similar to Ancient Greece, perhaps the most notable of which was Carthage. Each city-state was a politically independent unit, and it is uncertain to what extent the Phoenicians viewed themselves as a single ethnicity and nationality. In terms of archaeology, language, lifestyle, and religion there was little to set the Phoenicians apart as markedly different from other Semitic cultures of Canaan.

The Phoenicians were the first state-level society to make extensive use of alphabets. The Phoenician alphabet is generally held to be one of the major ancestors of all modern alphabets. By their maritime trade, the Phoenicians spread the use of the alphabet to Anatolia, North Africa, and Europe, where it was adopted by the Greeks, who in turn transmitted it to the Romans.